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TABLE III.
RETURN OF ALL EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN IN THE AREA.
It is assumed that every Authority will have a complete list of all
exceptional children In their area compiled from returns made continuously
during the year and kept constantly up to date. In order to
secure uniformity. Authorities are requested to make up this Table
from their list of exceptional children as it stands on the last day of
each calendar year.
Children who are living in residential schools in the area, but who
come from other areas, should not be included in this Table; but children
should be Included who are living in residential schools outside the area
and who are being maintained there by the Authority.
For the purpose of this Table, no child should be included whose
deject has not been ascertained by the School Medical Officer, by a
medical member of the Authority's staff, or by the Tuberculosis Officer.
Tuberculous children in areas other than Counties or County Boroughs
who have been ascertained by the County Tuberculosis Officer should not
appear in the Table for the County but in the Table for the appropriate
area.
The definitions of defective children as given in the Education Act,
1921, are as follows and must be very carefully borne in mind.
A blind child is a child who is too blind to be able to read the ordinary
school books used by children.
A deaf child Is a child who Is too deaf to be taught In a class of
hearing children in an elementary school.
Mentally and Physically Defective children are children who, not being
imbecile and not being merely dull and backward, are defective, that is to
say, children who by reason of mental or physical defect are incapable of
receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the ordinary public
elementary schools, but are not incapable by reason of that defect of
receiving benefit from instruction in such special classes or schools as
under Part V. of the Act may be provided for defective children.
Epileptic children are children who. not being idiots or imbeciles, are
unfit by reason of severe epilepsy to attend the ordinary public elementary
schools.
No child should be entered under more than one heading
in this form.
CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM MULTIPLE DEFECTS.
Information Is only required in respect of children suffering from any
combination of the following types of defect:—
Blindness (NOT Partial Blindness).
Deafness (NOT Partial Deafness).
Mental Defect.
Epilepsy.
Active Tuberculosis.
Crippling (as defined in the penultimate category of the Table).
Heart Disease.
The actual combination of defects should be stated on a separate
sheet, together with the type of school attended, e.g., in the case of a
mentally defective epileptic child, the return should show whether the
School attended is a school for mentally defective or for epileptic children.
State here the number of children suffering
from any combination of the above defects
Boys
Girls
Total*
Nil.
*Should there be no such children please enter "NIL."