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Officer for intellectual assessment and vocational guidance, as increasing
difficulty was being encountered in placing these young
people in work.
During the summer, the part-time teacher in the children's
neuro-surgical ward at Oldchurch Hospital asked advice about two
specific cases, and this was followed-up by the educational psychologist
visiting the hospital and helping to solve some other needs which
had arisen, the most pressing being the establishment of communication
between the hospital medical staff and the school medical
officers in the areas from which the children came, so that appropriate
education could be provided immediately upon discharge
from hospital. Considerable assistance with this matter was given
by one of the social workers at the Child Guidance Clinic.
In March the educational psychologist gave a short course of
four lectures for teachers on the subject of Special Education. It
was planned that this course should be given in the Child Guidance
Clinic, where the setting would be of interest to the teachers and
necessary apparatus was at hand. The enrolment was larger than
anticipated and a supplementary course of the same length was given
to enable everyone who wished to attend and also see the Clinic.
Amongst the more usual activities which continued were the
discussions with remedial teachers about the children whom they
taught and provision of remedial teaching by the psychologist for
eight disturbed children who received a total of 154 lessons.
A total of 207 children were interviewed in schools and in most
cases, a parent also seen. One hundred and thirty-six of these children
were below average in intelligence but this number is larger
than usual because it includes the Havering Grange entrants. The
remaining 71 children were of average intelligence or above. Twelve
of these children were referred by the School Medical Officer with a
view to treatment at the Child Guidance Clinic.
One hundred and twenty of the children who were referred to
the Child Guidance Clinic had their preliminary interviews with the
educational psychologist for Romford and 51 visits to schools were
made to discuss individual problems in connection with children
seen at the Clinic.
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