"The Backward Child" book is written by –

Educational psychology's literature on ‘backwardness’ names each landmark study by its own author. Backwardness, in this classical framework, is a child's scholastic attainment falling below the level expected for their chronological age — that is, below their age-peers or grade level — distinct from retardation, where attainment falls short of what the child's own measured mental ability would predict. Different psychologists studied and wrote about this problem in different books — so this question is really about matching the correct author to the correct title.

The book titled “The Backward Child” (1937) was written by Cyril Burt, the British educational psychologist who served as psychologist to the London County Council. In it, Burt examined the causes, diagnosis, and remedial treatment of scholastic backwardness among school children, drawing on his own case studies — making it one of the foundational texts on the subject.

• Crow and Crow are known for their general textbook ‘Educational Psychology’, a broad survey of learning and teaching principles — not a dedicated study titled ‘The Backward Child’.

• Schonell (Fred J. Schonell) wrote ‘Backwardness in the Basic Subjects’ (1942), which studies backwardness specifically in reading and arithmetic — a different, subject-specific title.

• Stones (Edgar Stones) is known for ‘Psychology of Education: A Pedagogical Approach’ (1979) — again a broad psychology-of-education text, not this specific title.