<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 200%;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The activities of the Medical Pedagogical Station of the Pestalozzi Society of Minas Gerais in treating<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>learning and behavior disorders in children are analysed based on information of the periodical <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Infância Excepcional</em> published in the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bulletins of the Public Education and Health Secretariat of Minas Gerais government during the 1930s and 1940s. The purpose is to verify how medical and pedagogical practices merged, and how the procedures then adopted contributed to the construction and later expansion of psychology applied to education in Brazil. This area of professional expertise seems to have arisen in great part from this proximity between medicine and education, from which the </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Pestalozzi Society</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"> m</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">edical pedagogical station of the </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">is one of the most consistent and fruitful examples, promoting the development of psychological and psycho-social diagnosis and procedures of clinic and educational intervention.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span></span></strong></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>