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It has occurred to me that, should the Speech Defect Class be removed from
the premises it at present occupies in the precincts of the Faircross Special School,
this would be a suitable building to offer the Essex Voluntary Association for
use as an Occupation Centre for these children.
Residential Schools.—The time has come when you are considering the upkeep
and maintenance of a few places at such a residential school as the Ogilvie School
of Recovery, whereby cases so ill that attendance at school is impossible may yet
receive treatment and education relative to their individual needs.
I do trust that during 1938 something will be done towards this end.
(14) FULL-TIME COURSES OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR BLIND,
DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC STUDENTS.
The Local Education Authority do not maintain any courses of training for
Blind, Deaf, Defective and Epileptic students.
(15) NURSERY CLASSES.
This year you have decided to set up nursery classes in certain of your schools,
and in my next Report you will probably have more detail as to the working and
management of these classes from the health point of view.
(16) SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER
EDUCATION.
The prophecy outlined in my previous Report of the unification of your
medical services with those of the Essex County Council has come to pass and
now your medical service undertakes the routine medical examination of the
children attending the Barking Abbey School and the Day School of the SouthEast
Essex Technical College. Routine inspection of these children for dental
defects is also similarly undertaken.
The service is in itself much the same as that carried out at your elementary
schools and includes the employment of your special treatment services, e.g.,
orthopædic, ophthalmic, dental, etc.