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(1) Found to be educationally subnormal:
(a) Recommended for Day School for E.S.N, pupils 73
(b) Recommended for Residential School for E.S.N, pupils 4
(2) Found to be unsuitable for education in School 24
(3) Other Recommendations:—
(a) Referred back to an Ordinary School 61
(b) Referred for further investigation by
School Psychological Service 5
(cj Recommended for Day Special Schools
for other handicaps 4
(d) Referred for Speech Therapy 6
(e) Referred for Medical Treatment 9
(f) Referred for further assessment 30
(g) Other Investigations 15
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Awaiting assessment on 31.12.69. 34
In addition,54 intelligence tests were given to children attending
St. Christopher's Special School.
A further 4 intelligence tests were given to children who were about
to attend St. Giles' Special School, and a further 3 children already
attending St. Giles'.
PHYSIOTHERAPY SERVICE
Miss J. McBride, M.C.S.P., A.P.T.A., Superintendent Physiotherapist
1969 proved to be a productive year in which the changes mainly
occurred at St. Giles' School, with the installation of an experienced
physiotherapist in charge followed by a further two full-time therapists.
This is now a highly integrated active Department, with thinkers deciding
the methods and doers providing the impulse, thus allowing the fruition of
many long considered plans.
Communication problems in the Physiotherapy Department sorely needed
to be rectified, so to this end plans were made to devise new methods of
assessment, to establish regular case conferences, to summarise the spina
bifida survey and to increase our role as parent-educators. Through any form
of communication three bases of living are attained; firstly knowledge
(through reading), secondly expression (through writing), and thirdly socialization
(through the interchange of ideas). It has been found that in oral
communication at weekly Staff Meetings, the opportunity always occurs to