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Orthopaedic and Postural Defects
(a) Pupils treated at clinics or out-patient departments 279
(b) Pupils treated at school for postural defects 12

Child Guidance
A total of 91 children from Dagenham were seen at the Romford Child
Guidance Clinic. There is a waiting list of 15 children.
Speech Therapy
During 1963, the two speech therapists, Miss Symes and Miss Shipley, continued
the treatment of speech disorders in school children and in pre-school
children. It is sometimes asked: "What constitutes a speech impediment?" and a
brief answer may be: "Any degree of defect which causes a social handicap to thi
individual, or embarrassment to his or her associates; or speech which in some
way makes the sufferer feel different from his or her associates." This, therefore,
does not include regional accents or dialects.
Again, Miss Symes and Miss Shipley would like to express their thanks to
Heads of Schools and to the School Medical Officers for referring suitable
patients for therapy.
Towards the end of 1963, Miss Symes commenced another three months'
experimental period of speech therapy with five children at the Junior Training
Centre at Osborne Hall, to determine how much the mentally retarded child may
benefit from speech therapy.