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AUDIOLOGY CLINIC
Numbers attending Croydon Day Schools and Pre-School Children
(a) With hearing sufficiently impaired to require regular auditory
training:
Primary School Pupils 34
Secondary School Pupils 17
Pre-School Children 11
Total 62
Pure Tone Audiometer Tests. (Excluding Sweep Test Failures).
Number of individual children tested during the year.
(a) For the first time 313
(b) As a review case 228
Total 541
Auditory Training
62 individual children received regular auditory training during the
year. Number of attendance sessions:
(a) At the Audiology Clinic 141
(b) At home or school 120
Total 261
Sweep Testing of Five year Old School Entrants
Number of schools visited 59
Number of children tested 5,075
Number of children passed 3,947
Number of children failed 383
Number of children to be re-tested 745
Number of children not tested 385
(absent or unco-operative).
The failures were re-assessed as follows:
No hearing loss 136
Slight hearing loss 94
Moderate hearing loss 111
Moderately severe hearing loss 16
Severe hearing loss 2
Failed to keep appointment 17
Left district 3
Waiting to be tested 4
Total 383
Issue of Hearing Aids
(a) National Health Service 'Medresco' Aids 4
(b) Commercial Aids bought by Croydon L.E.A. 7
Total 11
11 children under school age are using hearing aids.