[Possibilities and limitations in the education of athe mentally handicapped (author's transl)]

The possibilities and limitations in the education of the mentally handicapped can today be defined in both medical and pedagogical terms. We think that the physician can create essential preconditions for optimal education of a mentally handicapped child by diagnostic retience, avoidance of negative suggestions, by observation of the possibilities which remain open, by concern for education as early as possible, by informing of special educational facilities and by emotional stabilization of the parents. This is the only way of attaining a successful upbringing with respect to a sufficient integration.