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Apart from their value as indicating general levels, these surveys
provide schools with lists of their children for whom provision will need
to be made; and encourage follow-up inquiries. They are also used when
children are selected for help in small groups by a peripatetic remedial
teacher.
(d) In consultation with the Head Teachers concerned, small groups of
children in their first or second year at the junior schools were selected
for help by the specially appointed remedial teachers. The intention was
to take backward, but intelligent, pupils in the first year of the junior
schools, in the hope of dealing with the reading difficulty before it became
fixed.
The results so far, despite difficulties of accommodation and equipment,
have been encouraging. 64 children were included in these groups. Of
these, 7 left the area before the end of the year, but of the remainder,
40 improved sufficiently to dispense with this special help; 17 failed to do
so and were included in special groups the following year (some of these
have now improved enough to dispense with the special help).

This improvement was, of course, a joint result of the work of the
specialist teachers and the class-teachers, whose co-operation will be
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