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Local Youth Committee.
The Organisers are members of the Local Youth
Committee and serve on various sub-committees and in
close collaboration with the Youth Officer, they have
promoted courses for leaders in Physical Training, Ballroom
Dancing, Netball and Football. In addition, special
classes have been arranged in Keep-Pit, Swimming and
Athletics.
TREATMENT OP DEFECTIVE SPEECH:
The sessions devoted to speech therapy continue to be
well attended and the results achieved are highly satisfactory
when it is considered that in the majority of cases attendance
must be spread over a long period and that the ultimate cure
of the condition depends largely upon the co-operation given
by the child being treated. In this connection sympathetic
teachers and parents are of the greatest value and the teachers
especially have been throughout most helpful and interested.
The following report has been prepared by the Council's
speech therapist:—
"Speech Therapy sessions are held in the Hendon,
Childs Hill and Watling Health Centres, and in October a
temporary centre was held in Garden Suburb Infant
School where there were very many speech defectives,
particularly from the nearby Waifs and Strays Home.
These Centres have been visited regularly by speech
therapy students, health workers, student teachers and
nursery nurses.
There are over 200 children with speech disorders in
the Borough. Each child has been seen in school by the
therapist and the work has been planned so that cases in
greatest need of help attended the Centres first, with
preference given to juniors and seniors who have not outgrown
the difficulty, and to stammerers in particular. In
time, it is hoped that only infants will need treatment.
The later treatment commences, the more difficult it is to
effect a cure.