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Book Reviews The final section, 'Critical considerations', contains a review of language remediation pro- grammes by Chris Kierman in which the em- phasis of different remediation programmes is evaluated. Harris' chapter, 'Teaching children to develop language', rounds the book off with a skilled re-analysis and summary of the issues identified throughout. This reviewer found the book absorbing, both in its distillation of the vast literature on the subject and of the many conclusions and guides to good practice contained within its pages. Regrettably, many of these conclusions will be less than heartening for many professionals engaged at the chalk face with children evinc- ing language problems. TREVOR BRYANS SeniorPsychologist London Borough ofBrent, UK Society and Mental Handicap: Are We Ineduca- ble? Stanley Segal. Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Costello (1984). 322 pp. 12.95. ISBN 0-7104- 0047-0. This is a unique account of the past 40 years of special education, from the special, personal, viewpoint of Professor Stanley Segal, Principal of Ravenswood Village for the Mentally Hand- icapped, and visiting Professor at Bulmershe College. He traces his own career, beginning as an ex- serviceman at Goldsmith's College, teaching the 'Opportunity Grade' in Australia; then, back in Britain increasingly more committed to