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We would like to thank Miss Norah Gibbs of the Hampstead Child Guidance
Training Centre for taking so much trouble with the assessment of two of our
children, one deaf and one partially-sighted. We would also like to thank the
staff of the Romford Child Guidance Clinic for their help in the early part of
1965. Now, since the formation of the new London Borough of Barking, we have the
services of Mr. Sheridan the educational psychologist, who comes very quickly to
our aid and is most interested and helpful.
We have weekly visits from Miss Hodges the peripatetic teacher of the deaf,
and Mrs. Lawrence the physiotherapist who joined the staff this year - their work
is of great value to us.
An interesting film is being made at Kingsley Hall by Mr. Self our Health
Education Officer, with help from Mr. Williams, the Essex County Health Education
Officer.
We had very little new equipment this year, but there was one piece which
has proved to be a very great boon - a Baby Relax chair. The first one of these
was lent to us by the Baby Relax Company and we have subsequently acquired one
of our own.
We have had several interested visitors during the year, including Dr.
Hinden and his medical staff from Whipps Cross Hospital, and Dr. Yarrow, the
Area Medical Officer of S.E. Essex, with his Deputy and Mrs. Cottee, the Chairman
of the S.E. Essex Health Area Sub-Committee. The latter are intending to set up
a similar centre in S.E. Essex.