Here are the two forms in question:
Séguin's Form.—This follows out all of Séguin's pedagogical ideas, and all of his didactic methods; it is a guide for the physician, and a minute guide for the teacher who intends to adopt the Séguin methods of education. Séguin calls his biographic chart a "Monographic Picture," and divides it into five paragraphs, the fifth of which deals with the pupil's antecedents.
Monographic Picture (Séguin)
I. Portrait (Objective Morphological Examination)
- Age.
- Sex.
- Temperament, health.
- Illnesses, accessory infirmities.
- Detailed configuration of the cranium.
- Configuration of the face.
- Proportional relation between cranium and face.
- Inequality of the two sides of cranium and face.
- Hair, skin.
- Proportional relation between the trunk and the limbs.
- Inequality of the two sides of the trunk and limbs.
- General attitude of the body.
- Attitude of the head.
- Attitude of the trunk.
- Attitude of the lower limbs.
- Attitude of the upper limbs.
- Attitude of the hand and fingers.
- Configuration of the organs of speech, and their possible relation to the organs of generation; dentition.
- Configuration of the thorax.
- State of the vertebral column.
- State of the abdomen.
II. Physiological Examination
- Activity, general and applied.
- Apparent state of the nervous system.
- General irritability of the nervous system.
- Irritability of special groups of nerves.
- Cries, groans, singing, muttering, etc.
- The change which certain stimulants such as cold, heat, electricity, odours, etc., produce upon irritability and sensibility, general or special.
- Probable state of the brain.
- Voluntary articular flexions.
- Locomotion.
- Positions, recumbent, seated, standing, walking, ascending, descending.
- Running.
- Jumping.
- Grasping objects.
- Dropping objects.
- Catching objects.
- Throwing objects.
- Ability to dress, eat, etc., without aid.
- Probable state of the spinal marrow.
- Probable state of the organic nerves.
- Probable state of the sensory nerves.
- Probable state of the motor nerves.
- Difference of action between the sensory nerves and the motor nerves.
- Inequality of action of the motor nerves and sensory nerves on the two sides of the body.
- The muscular system, contractibility of muscles, and condition of sphincter muscles in particular.
- Muscular movements.
- Voluntary movements.
- Automatic movements depending on the condition of the sympathetic nerve.
- Automatic movements depending on the state of the central nervous system.
- Spasmodic movements.
- Coordinated and disassociated movements.
- Sense of touch.
- Sense of taste.
- Sense of smell.
- Sense of hearing.
- Sense of sight.
- Erectility.
- The voice, abnormal tones.
- Speech.
- Assimilative functions.
- Unnatural appetites.
- Manner of taking food.
- Mastication.
- Swallowing.
- Digestion.
- Evacuation of fæces and urine, voluntary or involuntary; other excretions, saliva, nasal mucus, tears, sebaceous humor, sweat, perspiration, etc.
- Pulse.
- Respiration.
- Sleep.
III. Psychic Examination
- Attention.
- Sensorial perception.
- Intellectual perception.
- Deduction.
- Coordination.
- Inventiveness.
- Unrelated memories.
- Foresight and forethought.
- To what extent are these intellectual operations, when they exist, applied to concrete phenomena, mixed phenomena (i.e., concrete and abstract) and to ideas of a moral nature?
- Are the general ideas of time, space, conventional measurements, relative value, intrinsic or arbitrary, understood and applied in actual daily life?
- Comparison.
- Judgment.
- Reflection.
- Have the ordinary rudiments, such as the alphabet, reading, writing, drawing, arithmetic, been taught to the pupil or not, and can they be taught in his present state?
- Have his attitude toward music and mathematics, enjoyment of singing, irresistible desire to sing, been brought about naturally?
- Has he a perception of the physical proportion of bodies, such as colour, form, dimensions, relations between the parts to form a whole?