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Probation Officers 6
Transfers 4
Hospitals 1
Others 3
Recommendations for Special Education
Residential Schools 22
Day Special Schools 17
Senior Psychologist the Special Units and Special Schools
Dr. Moya Tyson BA BSc (Econ) PhD., Senior Educational
Psychologist for Special Units and Special Schools reports
as follows:-
The pattern of work in 1971 remained much the same as
in previous years with work with children as a member of
the varios multi-disciplinary diagnostic teams, assessment of
children in special schools, advice where requested on
educational and learning problems and a similar function
for colleagues in neighbouring school psychological
services and other related disciplines.
The special developmental/diagnostic class at Busch
Corner clinic continued every morning as a joint venture
with a teacher, Mrs. Clamp and a member of the borough
speech therapy team. Similarly the special Friday
morning class in my office at the Hearing Clinic
continued as a joint venture with the speech therapists.
Several speech therapy students from the training schools
took part in helping to run these classes and some
teachers on diploma courses for handicapped children also
took part.
One new development was a small special class at
Belmont School for children with specific learning
difficulties made possible by the kind cooperation of the
Director of Education and staff and Mr. Kirby, headmaster
of the school. Although this class has been in operation
only a short time it has proved to be of value to children
whom it is not possible to help sufficiently through the
normal remedial provisions in other schools in the
borough.
The programme of lectures to teachers, doctors, speech
therapists and others in allied fields continued throughout
the year.
School Psychological Service
I am grateful to Mrs M Pears BA for submitting the
following report
After a lean period the School Psychological Service was
back to full strength by June of this year and the
psychologists were once again back in the schools.
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