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SPASTICS
57 Croydon Spastics were receiving education as at 31.12.59.
2 children received Home Teaching.
27 were attending St. Giles' School.
2 were attending St. Margaret's School, Croydon.
5 were at Residential Schools for Physically
Handicapped children.
3 were attending a Day School for Partially Deaf
children.
2 were attending a Residential School (St. Mary's
Bexhill)
6 were attending ordinary school.
1 was attending Myope School.
1 was attending St. Christopher's School.
2 were attending normal Private school.
6 were attending Spastic Centre full time.
A further 2 children were known who were under school age.
EPILEPTIC SCHOOL CHILDREN
Epilepsy is one of the conditions which must be ascertained
by the Education Authority, and qualifies for special educational
arrangements.
There are various forms of epilepsy, but it should not be
regarded as an illness in its own right. It is a manifestation
of some brain disturbance, as in the case of a child with a brain
tumour. Epilepsy in children which cannot be found to be due to
a particular cause is known as "idiopathic" but the number of
cases of epilepsy so labelled is decreasing with improvement in
medical knowledge and technique.
It is of the greatest importance that children suffering
from epilepsy should, as far as possible, have a normal education
in an ordinary school. This is the expressed policy of
the Ministry of Education and most epileptic children are in
fact so educated. In general, inability to attend an ordinary
school is due to: -
intellectual backwardness,
additional physical handicap,
because of behaviour disorders
or frequent major fits.