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Backwardness in school work (including reading
problems) 61%
Educational advice other than for backwardness ... 8%
Behaviour problems : at home 16%
at school 11%
Physical symptoms, e.g., tics, enuresis, stammer, etc. 7%
Requests from Probation Officers, Children's Officer,
Juvenile Employment. Officers, etc 3%
A good deal of attention by the Psychologist has been given to
the problem of backwardness in reading during the year ; and
very encouraging results are being maintained in the special
remedial reading classes in the Leyton Junior Schools. In the
summer term these were started in two additional schools, and
altogether 88 children were given this extra help during the year.
The selection of children who are most in need, and likely to benefit
most from this help has taken up a great deal of the Psychologist's
time ; and also the general supervision of the classes, the keeping
of records and advice to the teachers.
During the year two meetings of all the Heads of Junior
Schools were arranged in the Forest Division, where facts and
figures of backwardness in reading were discussed. Following this,
both the psychologists from the Walthamstow Child Guidance
Clinic gave courses of lectures on the teaching of reading in the
Junior School, and the number of teachers who attended these
courses was extremely high (nearly 300).
The Psychologist also assisted in a County Survey of reading
ability of all school leavers in the summer term. Reading quotients
for some 630 boys and girls were obtained with the co-operation of
the schools themselves. Comments on the results will have to await
the completion of the County Survey.
The number of school visits increased to 244, of which 125
were made to Leyton Schools and 119 to Forest Schools. In
addition, there were visits to homes to see parents or to give tests
to children unable to attend school.
The Psychologist has also had more invitations to speak at
gatherings of parents, teachers, speech therapists, etc. Twelve such
meetings were addressed during the.year on various topics connected
with problems of mental health,