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Educationally Sub-normal.
These are pupils who, by reason of limited ability or other
conditions resulting in educational retardation, require some
specialised form of education wholly or partly in substitution for
the education normally given in ordinary schools.
Boys. Girls. Total.
No. of Educationally Sub-normal Pupils
ascertained in 1950 9 10 19
They were all admitted to Harrow Green Educationally Subnormal
School.
Maladjusted Pupils.
These are pupils who show evidence of emotional instability
or psychological disturbance, and require special educational
arrangements in order to bring about their personal, social or
educational readjustment.
Before these children are ascertained as Maladjusted the help
of the local Child Guidance Clinic has usually been sought and
treatment instituted there. But the great majority of these
children are maladjusted either because of mismanagement at
home or of an unfavourable home environment; and treatment
cannot be given successfully while the child remains at home. It
is then necessary to certify the child as maladjusted so that he can
be transferred to a boarding school of a special type recognised by
the Ministry of Education as suitable for such cases or to a foster
home or hostel where he can live while attending for treatment at
a Child Guidance Clinic.
Boys. Girls. Total.
No. ascertained as Maladjusted in 1950 5 1 6
Deaf Pupils.
These are pupils who have no hearing, or whose hearing is so
defective that they require education by the methods used for deaf
pupils without naturally acquired speech or language.
There were two Totally Deaf pupils ascertained in 1950—one
boy and one girl.
There are two children of school age attending Residential
Deaf Schools and two awaiting admission. It is unfortunate that
the shortage of places in Deaf Schools continues owing to shortage
of teaching staff.