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Handicapped pupils
At the end of 1959 special educational treatment was being provided for approximately
12,000 pupils. The following table shows the main categories of handicap and numbers of
pupils receiving full-time special educational treatment:
Day
special
schools
Boarding
special
schools
Non-council
boarding schools,
hostels,
foster-homes
hospitals, etc.
Total
Blind — 66 51 117
Partially sighted 258 — 10 268
Deaf and partially deaf 273* 33 113 419
Physically handicapped 974 61 439 1,474
Delicate 1,470 178 103 1,751
Educationally sub-normal 3,386 600 39 4,025
Epileptic† — — 35 35
Maladjusted 133 271 539 943
6,494 1,209 1,329 9,032
* Includes 75 pupils in partially deaf units.
† A number of epileptic children (apart from those in ordinary school) are placed in schools for the delicate,
physically handicapped or educationally sub-normal.
In addition, part-time special educational treatment at day special classes was provided
for 358 maladjusted pupils and 2,558 pupils with speech defects.
During the year the numbers of new formal ascertainments were as follows:
Day Boarding
Blind — 15
Partially sighted 33 2
Deaf and partially deaf 44 9
Delicate 361 399*
E.S.N 627 88
Epileptic — 1
Maladjusted 250 269
Physically handicapped 186 19
Speech defect 1,235 79†
Dual defect — 72
* Including diabetic and E.S.N./delicate.
† Including pupils attending boarding schools for other defects.
Educationally sub-normal pupils—Section 57 of the Education Act, 1944 deals with the
examination and reporting to the local health authority of children considered incapable
of receiving education at school, of children whom it is considered inexpedient to educate
with other children and of children needing supervision under the enactments relating to
mental health after leaving school. Details of the numbers reported under this section
are given below:
1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
Section 57(3)-Incapable of receiving education:
Children not in any school 94 97 57 118 86
Children in normal schools 9 1 3 9 6
Children in special schools 90 102 75 83 97
Children receiving home tuition 1 — — 2 1
194 200 135 212 190
Section 57(3) and (4)—
Inexpedient to educate with other children. 6 4 4 3 3
Section 57(5)—School leavers 348 351 322 305 272
In 1959 another 154 school leavers were in need of voluntary supervision only.
Section 8 of the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1948 provides for a review
in the case of any child reported to the local health authority under section 57(3) of the
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