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Unit 24: Backward and Delinquent Children: Preventions and Teaching Strategies

(7) Educational, personal and vocational guidance programmes should be started. Conselling facility Notes
should be available.
(8) Teacher should try to maintain democratic environment of class and school. The school climate
should be more open of class and school.
(9) There should be good coordination between homes and school through proper 'teacher-parent
associations' etc.
(10) Medical check up should be arranged periodically for diagnosing physical defects, deformities
and disease, among students.
The delinquents are found at stage of adolescence or secondary and higher secondary level. The
child enters in the school with set pattern of his behaviour and attitudes. Even than education can
play crucial role in both treatment and preventing delinquencing.

Self Assessment
3. State whether the following statements are True or False:
(i) Personality development of children is largely influenced by schooling.
(ii) The school need not trained teachers with high moral character.
(iii) Children must be encouraged to read.
(iv) Poor children living in slums do have facilities for any healthy recreation.
(v) Teachers and parents should informs each other about the problems of the child.

24.5 Summary
• Prevention of backward Children:
• By providing quiet place to work to child, keep homework sessions short, add a variety of tasks
to the learning, ask questions about assignment, be patient but consistent, we can prevent the
backwardness in children.
• Teaching Strategies:
• Teaching should be arranged according to the interests, their need problems.
• Practical activities should be organized for their participation.
• Good methods of teaching are employed in class.
• Low intelligent children should be taught with slower speed.
• Curriculum should be according to their needs and requirements.
• Prevention of Delinquency: prevention and treatment both the devices are employed in
delinquency.
(1) Treatment of delinquents.
(i) Psychological method of treatment.
(ii) Psychoanalytic method of treatment.
(i) Psychological method - involves three devices
(a) Camp programme approach
(b) Community planning
(c) Change of environment
(ii) Psychoanalytic method of treatment-It comprises a theory of personality development and
functioning.
• Psychotherapeutic techniques and research techniques.
(i) Rod education
(ii) Mental catharsis

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