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AUDIOLOGY CLINIC
Numbers attending Croydon Day Schools and Pre-School Children
(a) With hearing sufficiently impaired to require regular supervision:
Pre-School Pupils 9
Primary School Pupils 21
Secondary School Pupils NIL
30
Pure Tone Audiometer Tests, (Excluding Sweep Test Failures)
(a) Tested for the first time 311
(b) Tested as a review case 374
685
Auditory Training
28 children received regular auditory training during the year.
Number of attendance sessions:
(a) At the Audiology Clinic 161
(b) At home 111
272
Sweep Testing of Five Year Old School Entrants
Number of schools visited 68
Number of children tested 7,871
Number of children passed 6,394
Number of children failed 681
Number of children to be re-tested 796
Number of children not tested 598
(absent or unco-operative).
The failures were re-assessed as follows:
No hearing loss 141
Slight hearing loss 263
Moderate hearing loss 156
Moderately severe hearing loss 51
Severe hearing loss 8
Failed to keep appointments 30
Left district 16
Waiting to be tested 21
Issue of Hearing Aids
(a) National Health Service 'Medresco' aids 2
(b) Commercial aids bought by Croydon L.E.A. 10
12
8 children under school age are using hearing aids.