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(5) Vocational Guidance
(6) Advice on school placement
(7) Psychological and Educational Assessments.
Sources of Referral :
Director of Education 12
Medical Officer of Health 10
Head Teacher 85
Outside sources (Hospitals; General Practitioners; Probation
Officers; and other agencies) 6
Direct to Centre (by parent) 5
Consultant Psychiatrist 33
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HANDICAPPED PUPILS
The Local Education Authority have a statutory duty under the
Education Act 1944, of ascertaining handicapped pupils in their area and
of providing for the special educational treatment of such children.
Ten categories of pupils requiring special educational treatment are
defined in School Health Service and Handicapped Pupils' Regulations.
These are as follows:—
(a) Blind Pupils, that is to say pupils who have no sight or whose sight
is, or is likely to become, so defective that they require education by
methods not involving the use of sight.
Number of blind pupils newly assessed 5
Number of blind pupils admitted to special schools during
the year 3
Total number of blind pupils in special schools for the
blind as at 31st December 1965 8
(b) Partially-Sighted Pupils, that is to say, pupils who by reason of
defective vision cannot follow the normal regime of ordinary schools
without detriment to their sight or to their educational development, but
can be educated by special methods involving the use of sight.
Number of partially-sighted pupils newly assessed Nil.
Number of partially-sighted pupils admitted to special
Schools during the year Nil.
Total number of partially-sighted pupils in special
schools for partially-sighted children as at 31st
December 1965 9