Tulane has been awarded a $107,712 grant for research on children who repeatedly have accidents.
Dr. Rufus C. Harris, Tulane president, said the money is coming from the National Institute of Mental Health.
The grant is for a four-year period, with $26,460 alloted for the first year.
The study will be directed by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus, director of! the child psychiatry unit of the Tulane School of Medicine, and associate professor of psychiatry.
Dr. Marcus has said that the study will cover two groups of children—those who have had at least two or more accidents requiring medical attention, and those who have never had an accident. TO SEEK PATTERN
The study, he said, is to discover ways in which accidents may become a pattern of adaptation for children who have repeated accidents during childhood.
Co-operating in the work will be the New Orleans public schools, Tulane and Louisiana State Universtiy medical schools and several of the city's hospitals.
In addition to Dr. Marcus, the research team is made up of Miss Nancy Simms, research phycholo-gist, and Mrs. Betty Spencer, psychiatric social worker, both of the departments of psychiatry and neurology.
