JAMES B. POND PRESENTS MIRIAM FINN SCOTT, CHILD DIAGNOSTICIAN, in Lectures & Addresses on Child Problems -- How to Meet and Overcome Them. (Brochure).

New York: The Pond Bureau, circa [1924]., [1924].. Very good. - Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, self-wraps. A four-page brochure printed on cream paper with a portrait of Miriam Finn Scott on the cover page. There is some light creasing to the top edges of the pages. Very good. <p>The brochure includes a biography of Miriam Finn Scott with her own account of her training and career, and a list of her lectures with comments on them by educational and child-rearing experts. Among the lectures are "How to Know Your Child", "A New Vision of Education", "Fathers and Children" and "Training for Motherhood". On the rear page is a Little, Brown & Co. listing of books by Scott that they have published and quotations from positive reviews.<p>Miriam Finn Scott (1882-1944) was born in Vilna, Russia and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1893. Her interest in child development was aroused by her first job working at a roof playground for children in 1898 and then managing a roof playground at the University Settlement in New York City. From 1903 to 1906 she worked at the Speyer School which expanded into a neighborhood settlement in Harlem where Scott became director of the "children's and girls club work". After postgraduate work in Europe in the field of educational psychology she felt confident that she could make her own independent contribution to parent education and in 1915 she founded a clinic called the Children's Garden. It became one of the first laboratory clinics where the relationship between parents and their children was explored.