[Comments on a concept of clinical child psychology]

Arguments in favor of establishing clinical child psychology as an independent subject are first discussed, and then the discipline itself is defined as a comparatively autonomous domain of psychology. Using three examples (research on reading and spelling weaknesses, the development of the memory and social interaction in ecological fields) it is shown that clinical child psychology can and must develop also through the utilization of fundamental research. The examples are closely related to aspects of the "Defective child" research project.