[Reformatory educational approaches in early special education of the physically handicapped - a survey based on the "Journal for the Care of Cripples" 1909--1929 (author's transl)].

An historical survey of special education of the physically handicapped is necessary because the dialectic relationship between the educational attention for the physically handicapped on the one hand and the educational rejection of the most severely handicapped on the other hand, seems to be occurring today as in the first decades of this century. At first, the article reviews the social-biological approach of the orthopaedist K. Biesalski and the "educational psychology of cripples" of H. Würtz, who worked together with Biesalski. The educational demands for cripples which result from their theories are briefly described. The influence of reformatory educational theory on both the pre-scientific educational theories concerning cripples before 1920 and the experimental-psychological and special educational concepts until 1929 are outlined. Finally the article analyses the resource material including articles of Agahd 1909; Delitsch 1909; Denzer 1910; Plass 1912; Würtz 1912, 1913; Legel 1914; Köhler 1926; Herold 1929 und Winkler 1929.