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Nose and Throat Specialist.
Figures for treatment are:-
Operative treatment (cases):-
(a) For diseases of the ear 1
(b) For adenoids and chronic tonsillitis 94
(c) For other nose and throat conditions 20
Other forms of treatment (cases)184
Child Guidance
I wish to thank Miss C. Helen Watt, Educational Psychologist,
Ilford Child Guidance Clinic, for the following report on "The
School Psychological Service in Barking":-
"During the year, the remedial class at Monteagle Junior
School has taken in more children and reached the maximum size
which was envisaged for the class. In September one or two
children had made enough progress to return to an ordinary class
and one had reached Secondary School age so left for that reason;
he had benefitted a great deal from the help he was given in the
class and had reached a stage where he could read well enough
to manage class work in a Secondary School. This left vacancies
for more children to be admitted to the class from neighbouring
schools. Both the remedial classes; the class at Roding Junior
School and that at Monteagle School are providing a very valuable
service for children who have fallen behind in their school work
and who need intensive remedial teaching to enable them to work
up to the level of their intelligence.
There is still a need for one or two classes of this kind for
children of Secondary School age. The Secondary Schools are we
aware of the problem and are doing a lot to provide extra help
within the ordinary schools for children who have learning difficulties.
There are however a few very difficult cases who would
make better progress if they were taken out of the Secondary
Schools temporarily and given full-time or part-time remedial in
a smaller unit with a view to returning them to the Secondary
Schools when they had made sufficient progress. This would be of
particular value to children who, besides being behind with their
school work are emotionally too immature or too disturbed to cope
adeguately with the social adjustment needed to fit in to the large
community of a Secondary School. For these children, help in
adjusting their attitudes to school life in a small school community
can make it easier for them to learn to adjust later to a larger
school.
Plans have been made during the year for the new Greater
London borough of Barking, which will include the present
borough of Dagenham, to have its own School Psychological
Service. Mr. Sheridan was appointed in August to take over
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