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held in:-
The Child Guidance Training Centre
The Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic
The Tavistock Clinic
University College Hospital
Speech Therapy
The Authority employs the equivalent of five whole-time speech therapists who undertake
sessions at various clinics, combining these with sessions in the Day Special Schools and
Junior Training Schools in the Borough. During the year, a total of 570 children received
treatment and supervision.
Handicapped Pupils
The Education Act, 1944, gave Local Education Authorities the responsibility of ascertaining
handicapped pupils in their areas and of providing special educational treatment for
such children. It is the duty of a Local Authority to ascertain these children from the age of
two years. The School Health Service and Handicapped Pupils Regulations, 1959, defined the
various categories of handicapped pupils as follows:-
Blind Epileptic
Partially Sighted Maladjusted
Deaf Physically Handicapped
Partially Hearing Delicate
Educationally subnormal Children suffering from Speech Defects.
Special educational treatment may be provided in an ordinary school, with special
conditions applicable to the disability, or in a day or residential special school catering for
the particular needs of children with one or more handicap.
During 1967 a new Day Special School for educationally sub-normal pupils, Northway
School, was established by the authority in addition to Oak Lodge School, the Borough being
divided to form new catchment areas for each of these schools.
The authority also maintains Swaylands School, Penshurst, Kent, a residential special
school for educationally sub-normal boys, and is responsible for Winifred House Convalescent
Hospital School, Barnet Gate.
Future proposals for special education in the Borough as outlined in the Educational
Development Plan include two Day Special Schools for Maladjusted Children and a Day Special
School for Delicate/Physically Handicapped Children. Also envisaged in the plan is provision
for a Residential Special School for Maladjusted Boys by means of extensions to Swaylands
School.
The following Table shows the number of handicapped pupils as at 31st December 1967:-
124