The Celdic Report is the informal name for One Million Children, a national study of Canadian children with emotional and learning disorders published in 1970 by the Commission on Emotional and Learning Disorders in Children (CELDIC). The report was sponsored by the Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded and other organizations, and was published in Toronto by Leonard Crainford for the Commission.[1][2]
Design and History
The CELDIC report was the result of a national study of Canadian children with emotional and learning disorders, with emphasis on what was being done to help them.[3] The published volume ran 521 pages with illustrations and included a bibliography.[2] A supplementary publication, the report of the Ontario Committee of the Commission, was also issued in 1970.[4]
Some online sources attribute the design of the Celdic Report cover to Leslie (Sam) Smart, a British-born graphic designer who settled in Toronto in 1954 and became a founding member of the Society of Typographic Designers of Canada in 1956.[5][6] However, no primary source or authoritative design archive has been located that verifies Smart’s involvement with this specific publication. The attribution should therefore be treated as unconfirmed.
Meaning and Symbolism
No documented symbolism or design rationale for the Celdic Report’s cover or typographic treatment has been found in available sources. The report’s title, One Million Children, refers to the estimated number of Canadian children affected by emotional and learning disorders at the time of the study, a figure that gave the report its widely used CELDIC name.[7]
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