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We have had many distinguished visitors to Kingsley Hall during 1962, but we
would particularly like to thank some of the visitors who helped us greatly with their
advice and service. Among these, Mrs. Barber, Psychiatric Social Worker of Romford
Child Guidance Clinic has helped us with some of the emotionally disturbed children by
visiting parents and making early appointments with the psychiatrist. Miss Gascoyne
the Educational Psychologist devoted a whole morning to demonstrating a method of
ascertainment for children with poor speech ability, and she also provided some helpful
explanation on the background of some of our children. Miss Hodges, the peripatetic
teacher of the deaf, has helped us a great deal with our deaf children, and recently obtained
for us a Siemens Speech Training Unit for the use of one of our children. She visits
us fairly regularly, to give instruction to both children and staff.
We are always delighted to welcome visitors to the nursery as we feel this greatly
benefits the children. They enjoy a change and delight in showing off their newly
acquired skills. This welcome is specially extended to mothers, who are encouraged to
come to the nursery as frequently as they are able, and to stay and take part in the nursery
routine. We like to feel that in this way the children come to look upon the nursery
as an extension of the home and not as a separate entity.
The number of new admissions in 1962 was 15:—
3 mentally defective
2 mongols
3 maladjusted
1 hemiplegia
1 partially sighted
1 epileptic
1 cleft palate with poor speech
2 deaf
1 spastic
The number of discharges for 1962 was 14:—
1 spastic—discharged to Wilfred Pickles residential school for spastics
2 failures to thrive—discharged home
1 hemiplegia— moved to another area
3 emotionally disturbed (2 going to normal school, 1 home)
1 hemiplegia— to normal school
1 partially sighted—discharged home (since returned to nursery)
1 deaf child—to Nursery for Deaf Children
1 deaf child—discharged home
1 spastic—to Day Centre for Spastic Children
1 congenital heart—to normal school
It can be said without reservation that all the children have made progress, some
indeed remarkable progress.
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