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nessed a growing community interest and concern in providing educational services and trained teaching personnel to help the deviant child. Mental health agencies and school systems over our nation are earnestly searching for new ways and means to help disturbed children hitherto excluded from our public schools. Teaching the Troubled Child by George T. Donahue and Sol Nichtern is the story of the “teachermom” program of the Elmont (N. Y.) school system, widely publicized and heralded as a “radically new approach to the education of hundreds of thousands of emotionally and mentally handicapped children through existing community facilities (book jacket).” This book attempts to demonstrate that (a) “The one-to-one relationship