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Partially Hearing Unit, Kingsley Infants' School
Premises
The accommodation for partially hearing children at the
Kingsley Infant School consists of three rooms, one of which is
acoustically tiled to ensure sound-proofing. This room is used
for general teaching. It is equipped with one group aid adjusted
to the loop system, ten desks fitted with individual headphones,
microphones, and sound level meters by which the child can
adjust the sound received to its own requirements. Children are
also issued with their own individual aids, adapted to the loop
system.
Under-fives have one play-room and one rest-room. Wash
basins and toilet facilities are easily accessible to all rooms.
The Unit was opened in January 1964, and during this period
fourteen children have been admitted for special educational
treatment. Ten are still on roll. Of the four who left, one girl
was transferred to a junior unit for partially hearing pupils,
one boy to a junior school for hearing children, one boy to a
school for the physically handicapped, and the family of one
girl removed to another district. The children now on roll can
be classified as under.
4 children are attaining a reasonable level of intelligible
speech.
1 is responding to speech training and should acquire some
useful speech.
1 repeats only what is offered in a very limited context.
4 do not respond to speech teaching at present.
Of the four children at present making little, if any response,
to speech, or speech sounds, three are immigrant children
under the age of 5, and may therefore be suffering from the
additional handicap of language difficulties. The remaining
child aged 4%, now in school 16 months, is profoundly deaf.
Integration into the ordinary school.
All children integrate for meals, play and social activities.
Pour children integrate for limited periods of normal school
work, according to their age and ability.
Most children admitted to the Unit appear to benefit either
socially or academically, or both, according to the child's
innate ability, and the degree of co-operation given by the home.