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Many school systems now employ school psychologists and child guidance specialists.

These specialists perform valuable services by helping teachers learn to identify children who need special attention, by suggesting ways of meeting the needs of individual children in the regular classroom, and by providing clinical services for severely maladjusted children.

It is the classroom teacher, however, who has daily contacts with pupils, and who is in a unique position to put sound psychological principles into practice.

Indeed, a study of the individual child is an integral part of the work of the elementary-school teacher, rather than merely an additional chore.