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the headmaster is also in telephone communication when occasion warrants it. Mr.Head,
the peripatetic teacher of the deaf has also visited the school and has been especially
helpful to a girl with a hearing aid. Again, this child appeared to dislike wearing
the hearing aid in school. She is not severely deaf and she should have been able to
manage. The audiology unit, under whose care she was, suggested that she should attend a
partially deaf school, but because her degree of deafness was not severe Mr.Head and the
School Medical Officer were rather reluctant to agree to this. However, arrangements
were made with the local partially deaf school for the child's transfer for three
months to their school. She is now wearing her hearing aid continuously and making very
good progress in the partially deaf school and the experiment has been extended for
another six months. Although this child is seriously maladjusted it looks as if she is
making a better adjustment in the partially deaf school than she would have done in the
maladjusted school, but we will wait to see what the end of the experiment will reveal.
The Educational Psychologist visits the school frequently and gives valuable help.
She has a close liaison with the medical and teaching staff.
HEARING AIDS
There are fifteen children wearing hearing aids who are resident in Leyton, seven
of whom are attending Special Schools outside the borough.
AUDITORY TRAINING
I wish to thank Mr.B. R. Head, Peripatetic Teacher of the Deaf, for the following
report:-
"There are eight partially deaf children with hearing aids in Leyton schools
placed as follows: -
Primary School 3
Secondary School 2
Nursery School 1
E.S.N. School 2
The two children in primary school are being visited weekly for Auditory Training,
as is the child in the nursery school. The children in the other schools are less
handicapped and do not need to be visited so frequently.
The pre-school child mentioned in my last report has been placed in the William
Morris School for the Deaf as has a child who was formerly placed in the Unit for
Maladjusted children. In the latter case this placement is only temporary and the
child concerned will probably leave the William Morris School at the end of this term.
Her future placement has not yet been decided.
One boy has been issued with a Philips' hearing aid after protracted trials to
establish which type of aid would be most suitable for him. His teacher reports that
he has far less difficulty in class since this aid was supplied.
All, except one, of the children in normal schools are making adequate progress
and give no cause for concern at present. The exception is a girl aged six years with
a severe high tone loss. She is making progress, particularly in reading,her vocabulary
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