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CLINIC FOR EDUCATIONALLY SUB-NORMAL CHILDREN
140 children were examined during 1958. The classifications
arrived at, together with recommendations made, are as follows:-
(1) Pound to be mentally defective:
(a) Pound to be mentally defective and referred to
Local Authority and Occupation Centre 5
(b) Pound to be mentally defective and referred to
Local Authority for Statutory Supervision 7
(c) Recommended Institutional Care and referred to
Local Authority 1
(2) Pound to be educationally sub-normal:
(a) Recommended to St. Christopher's Special
School 32
(b) Recommended to Residential School 2
(3) Other Recommendations:
(a) Referred to Slow Stream in Ordinary Elementary
School 13
(b) Recommended for re-test 17
(c) Deferred for Medical Treatment 10
td) Recommended for St. Giles' 1
(e) Recommended for St. Lukes' 2
(f) Recommended for Epileptic Colony 1
(g) Referred back to Ordinary Elementary School 17
(h) Referred to Child Guidance Clinic 8
(4) Examined for other Authorities
116
Mental Tests at St. Christopher's 24
140
8 home visits have been paid to Education cases.