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Special Education

Notes (iii) Persuasion
(iv) Suggestion
(v) Change in environment is some methods of above treatment.
• The purpose of prevention fro delinquency is to develop attitude, moral value and other
competencies among the children.
• The method of prevention of delinquency:
(a) Home conditions and family system
(b) State and social agencies
• Home system: Parents should not quarrel in front of their children they should not in partial to
all the children, proper at most here should be provided, no over and under protection attitude
of parents.
• State and social agencies: Should establish good schools with good staff, equipments, should
eliminate evil influences, should have provision for daily assemblies and for moral and religious
education, should open some children homes to provide homely atmosphere to illegitimate
children.
• Teaching Strategies:
(i) Adequate Schooling: Adequate schooling can contribute a great deal towards control of
delinquency. For trained teachers with high moral character should be in school. Children
must be encouraged to read.
(ii) Recreational activities: Poor children living in slums do not have faciliti8es for any healthy
recreation. Properly organized and supervised play and recreation cannot only prevent
delinquency among children but also improve their physical and mental health.
(iii) Social Environment: individual attention should be paid to children, healthy recreational
and co-curricular activities should be provided, teacher should teach according to the age,
ability and level of the students. Audio visual and library facility should be used. There
should be good co-ordination between homes and school through proper teacher parent
associations.

24.6 Keywords

• Juvenile : Connected with young people who are not yet adults.
• Psychoanalytic : To treat or study somebody who is mentally ill by asking them to talk
about past experiences and feelings in order to try to find explanations for
their present problems.
• Persuade : To make somebody do something by given them good reasons for doing
it.
• Recreational : Connected with activities that people do for enjoyment when they are not
working.

24.7 Review Questions

1. Give the methods of teaching backward children.
2. Write any five points for prevention of backward children.
3. What are the psychological methods of treatments?
4. What is prevention from delinquency?
5. Explain some teaching strategies.

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