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The Education Act (1944) introduced the term ‘educationally subnormal’ to describe children ‘who by reason of limited ability or other conditions resulting in educational retardation, require some specialised form of education wholly or partly in substitution for the education normally given in ordinary schools’, and these were estimated at 5–10% of the school population. Special schools were designated for this purpose and referred to as ESN schools. Although ‘intelligence quotients’ as such are not mentioned, the quotients of children placed at ESN schools were generally between 50 and 70.
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Crawford, N.B. (1980). Education of the Severely Mentally Handicapped. In: Simon, G.B. (eds) The Modern Management of Mental Handicap. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7200-4_11
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