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(8) Various deformities, if—
(a) The deformity renders the child liable to injury
at the ordinary school.
(b) The deformity is increasing.
(c) The child is under treatment or observation on
account of the deformity.
(d) Orthopaedic instruments liable to injury are
worn.
Physically defective children should be educated at an
open-air school.
Blind—i.e., a child too blind to be able to read the ordinary
school books used by children. [Elementary Education
(Blind and Deaf Children) Act, 1893. Section
15.]
These children may be classified as follows:—
(1) Suitable for Special School or Institution.
(2) Suitable for Special Myope i.e., short-sighted
class attached to ordinary school.
These children have a reasonable degree of visual
acuity, but owing to visual defect, have the habit of peering
and groping at their work. The experience in London would
indicate that it is better to have these classes attached to
the ordinary rather than the special blind school, as the
children are not then marked down as blind children. These
children also may be taught with the normal children in
respect of all forms of oral teaching, and a better classification
of the children is obtainable for this purpose where
they form a special class of a large school than would be
the case in a special blind school, with limited numbers.
Manual work in which the fixed attention of the eyes
is not required should be used to the fullest extent in the
education of these children.