Senior Louisiana State university medical school students studying pediatrics will visit the Lafayette school to learn what the schools are doing for children who need special education.
The first §roup 7-18 will visit the special classes Oct. 1, and each student will sit in on tv/o classes, One hour long each. A seminar will follow. Every six weeks, 18 more students will visit the special classes.
Miss Carmelite Janvier director of the division of special
services, Orleans parish school system, said this would be the first time a group such as the medical students has planned to visit the special classes regularly.
The Lafayette school will be
used as a study because it is
more convenient and there are
a number of special classes
there, Miss Janvier said, but
about 25 public schools, mostly
elementary, have one or more
special classes.
Dr. William Obrinsky, associate professor of pediatrics, LSU medical school, said this project is an attempt to teach future doctors how to help a child in cases that can't be treated with medicine alone.
