Gaylis, Zankov and etc. [Mental/intellectual retardation, blindness and deaf-dumbness: psychophysiology, pedagogy, prevention]

Abstract:
In 1925/26 academic year, central advanced training courses for those working with blind, deaf-mute, and mentally retarded children and adolescents, began operate in Moscow. Local departments of public education sent their employees to these courses. These courses became an important event in the fight against blindness, deaf-dumbness and mental retardation, as they summarized the experience of the work being done, raised number of topical problems and organized their specific studies. There were three sections here - on blind, deaf-mute and mentally retarded children and adolescents. According to the opinion of those years, the widespread dissemination of information about much causes of mental retardation, blindness and deaf-muteness and preventive measures to combat them were necessary in order to "destroy these disasters at the very root, paralyze their very occurrence."