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Some handicapped children suffer from more than
one disability, eg physically handicapped and
partially hearing, epileptic and educationally
sub-normal, but are classified in the table under
the major handicap.
The following special schools for handicapped
pupils are maintained by the Education
Committee. Although these schools are attended
principally by children who live in the Borough,
children from other areas are admitted by
arrangement with their local education authorities.
Busch House School (Isleworth)
This school was opened in 1938 as a day open air
school for 140 delicate pupils. In 1964 it was
adapted to take delicate children and children
suffering from minor degrees of maladjustment
and the total accommodation reduced from
140 to 100.
A medical officer visits the school weekly to
supervise the delicate children and deal with any
minor ailments, to maintain close liaison with the
head teacher in regard to pupils in the school and
to make recommendations for admission or
discharge.
The psychiatrist from the Child Guidance Clinic
spends one session weekly at the school and the
services of the educational psychologists and
psychiatric social workers are available.
At the end of the year there were 48 delicate
and 52 maladjusted pupils in attendance. The
majority of the delicate children require daily
treatment and a physiotherapist attends every
morning.
Martindale School ( Hounslow)
This is a day school for physically handicapped
children with accommodation for 110 pupils.
Furniture and apparatus capable of being
adapted to the needs of the pupils is in use and
facilities are available for hydrotherapy,
physiotherapy and speech therapy. The majority
of the pupils suffer from cerebral palsy and many
are dependent on wheel chairs for locomotion.
Close co-operation between the teaching and
medical staff is necessary to secure a reasonable
balance between the educational and treatment
needs of the child and to make the best of his
physical and intellectual potentials. Many of these
children have learning difficulties and here the
services of the senior educational psychologist
are particularly useful.
Heston School for the Deaf (Heston)
This day school, with its associated classes for the
partially hearing in Townfield and Harlington
Secondary Schools, Springwell Infant, Springwell
Junior, Norwood Green Infant and Norwood
Green Junior Schools provides accommodation
for 130 deaf and partially hearing pupils. The
medical officer to the Hearing Clinic gives general
medical supervision of these pupils and there is
full discussion of hearing and learning difficulties
between the clinic and teaching staff.
Marjory Kinnon School (Bedfont)
The Old School, Bedfont, was renamed The
Marjory Kinnon School in October as a tribute
to its first headmistress who retired this year.
This day school for educationally sub-normal
pupils has accommodation for 160 children and at
the end of the year had 105 boys and 55 girls.
Weekly visits are made by a medical officer to
provide general medical supervision and for
consultation on specific problems as they arise
among the pupils, of whom a proportion suffer
from some physical disability. Leavers'
conferences with the Head Teacher and Youth
Employment Officer are held twice yearly and the
medical officer of the Mental Health Department
is consulted where it is thought that some
follow-up and guidance after leaving school may
be necessary. The school maintains contact with
the Kitson Youth Club for Handicapped persons
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