subnormal child

"I've heard that clever people often have subnormal children," Meg had once overheard.

Alex turned to her and spoke each word loudly and clearly as if she were a subnormal child.

Such as a home for subnormal children."

It provides special education, as noted in Chapter 4, for educationally subnormal children and for those previously described as ineducable.

In 1975, aged ten, Hughes was sent to Bank Hall, a residential school for educationally subnormal children, in Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire.

In fact, the numbers of educationally subnormal children in special schools in England and Wales increased progressively from about 18 000 in 1950 to over 107 000 in 1979.

Hopton Stoddard announced that the Temple would be remodeled into the Hopton Stoddard Home for Subnormal Children.

Gus Webb designed a cubistic ornament to frame the original windows, and the modern neon sign on the roof, which read: "The Hopton Stoddard Home for Subnormal Children."

Toohey wanted a building to house a new home for subnormal children; he had an organization set up, a distinguished committee of sponsors, an endowment for operating expenses--but no building and no funds to erect one.

Responsibility for the education of severely subnormal children in England and Wales was transferred by this Act from the health authorities to the local education authorities; LEAs were thereafter responsible for all establishments caring for mentally handicapped children.