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the year, 14 in reading and 1 in arithmetic. Most of these children
have other problems in addition to their failure in reading, and so
present unusual difficulties to the teacher, and it is for this reason
that they have been given individual teaching at the Clinic. Each
of them has one 40-minute lesson a week and, even in spite of this
very limited time, every one has made progress.
Two courses of lectures have been given by the Psychologist
during the year. The first, during the Summer Term, was on
"The Education of Backward Children", and was given in Woodford
; the second, during the Autumn Term, was on "Mental
Health in Children", and was given in Leyton. It may be of
interest to note that far fewer people applied to attend the second
of these two courses than the first. Other lectures have been
given to the Dagenham Educational Fellowship, the Forest Educational
Fellowship, the Special Schools Association, the Leyton
Branch of the Nursery School Association, Parents' Guilds and
Parent-Teacher Associations. The Psychologist also assisted at a
week's residential course at Saffron Walden Training College on
the " Education of Backward Children
It should be noted that for five months out of the year there
has been no Psychiatric Social Worker for the Leyton and Forest
Divisions, and this has meant that the Educational Psychologist
has had to give more time to work in the Clinic than is normally
required, with a corresponding decrease in the amount of time
which has been spent in the schools.