The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-09-22
PUT SUNSHINE
IN LITTLE LIVES
State and Local School Of
ficials Combine to Aid
Backward Pupils.
TO CORRECT SPEECH
State VIII Aid City in Correc-
ton of Speech and in Main
tanning Opportunity School.

With view of putting new sunshine
into the lives of children of Kenosha
and offering them chance to remove
handicaps of their education and life
work, the local school officials with
the aid of representatives of the state
department of education this morning
started survey of the city with a
view of searching out two classes of
children and providing better for their
education.
Miss Pauline B. Camp of the state
department is here to cooperate with
the local school officials and her quest
today is for the children who are suf-
fering from defective speech. Child
rem who stammer are especially sought
and these children will be given special
training with view of correcting their
defective speech. This work will be
done in the various schools of the
city and the cost of it will be paid by
the state. The work has been done
in some minor way in Kenosha in the
past, but it is the plan to make this
survey complete one with a view
of bringing under this special instruc-
tion every child in the city suffering
from defective speech.
Opportunity School Widened Work.
The other feature of the survey will
be the widening out of the work of
the Opportunity School" with view of
taking more of the backward children
of the city into the school and giving
them better chance to get an educa-
ton. The survey of the children who
are properly students for the oppor-
tunity school has been going on for
several days under the supervision of
DR.. Elizabeth Woods, one of the best
known experts in the work in the
United States. She was here Thurs
day and Friday of last week. and in
company with Miss Camp made an in
spection of the various schools of the
city. In the past year the Kenosha
Opportunity school has had some thirty
pupils and as result of the survey
which is now underway already fifteen
more children have been selected for
this special instruction. There will
be three teachers in charge of the
school and good portion of the cost of
maintaining it will be paid by the state
and it will have the aid of expert state
superintendent at all times.
Must Give Children Chance.
zone of the really big works Of
Kenosha is to give these backward and
defective children chance" said
Superintendent Loomis this morning.
at is one of the really valuable things
that the schools can do. These I'M
fortunate children can not be expected
to do the regular work of the school
program but their handicap in life can
be reduced by proper training. We
seek to teach them to work with their
hands and to brighten up their men
tally in order that they may get the
best possible chance in life. 1t is
hoped that some of them will progress
so rapidly that they will be able to
return to the regular school classes.
The state is giving splendid aid in
this work and DR.. Woods and Miss
Camp are both experts with long ex-
perience in the work of searching out
and providing, for the proper training
of these children"
Three rooms on the second floor Of
the Gillett school are given over to
the instruction of these children.