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Pure Tone Audiometer Tests:
Number of individual children tested during the year:
(a) For first time 329
(b) As a review case 167
Total 493
Auditory Training:
96 individual children receiving regular auditory training
during the year. Number of attendance sessions:
(a) At Lodge Road Audiology Clinic 361
(b) At home or school 147
Total 508
Sweep Testing of five year old school entrants.
(Commenced September 1961)
Number of schools visited 20
Number of children tested 737
Number of children passed 641
Number of children failed 96
Number of children not tested
(absent or unco-operative) 62
The 96 failures were followed up:-
No hearing loss 23
Negligible hearing loss 16
Slight to moderate hearing loss 17
Serious hearing loss 5
Absent or failed to keep appointment 34
Left district 1
Total 96
Issue of Hearing Aids
(a) National Health Service "Medresco" Aids 7
(b) Commercial Aids bought by Croydon L. E. A. 5
12
Supplied in previous years 52
Total 64
2 of the children using hearing aids are under school age.