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been quite the type of child that I envisaged when the nursery was
originally discussed.
Mead Nursery. There are now eight children in this nursery.
Waiting List
This is now about two to four weeks from time to time of
referral to diagnostic interview. This is satisfactory and will give
more time to psychotherapy. One is unduly anxious of a large
waiting list when considering treatment time.
School Psychological Service
Miss I. A. Poulton, Educational Psychologist has submitted
the following report:—
During 1963 the educational psychologist interviewed a total
of 169 children for individual assessment in schools, in most cases
seeing one of the parents also and discussing the problem with the
school staff. Although a separate record has not been kept of the
attendance of fathers this year, there has been a tendancy for the
number accompanying mothers for interview to increase. Ninetyfour
of the children seen were of below average intelligence.
Regular visits to Havering Grange School have continued and
about half the children who were tested on the 1937 version of the
Terman Merrill Scale before admission have now been re-tested on
the 1960 Scale which came into use shortly after the opening of
the school.
At Ramsden Hall School the Wechsler Scale has been used with
the older boys with a view to vocational guidance and also diagnostically
with boys whose reading difficulty has proved particularly
severe.
The Youth Employment Officer again sought advice about
several young people who had failed to settle in a number of posts
over a short period. Children leaving boarding schools for maladjusted
children outside the County are now interviewed about a
year before leaving school in order to allow the Youth Employment
Officer a long period in which to explore the possibilities of placing
them suitably.
Parklands Nursery was visited regularly and the progress of
the leavers followed up in their ordinary schools. Of the first intake,
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