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Children Wearing Hearing Aids in Ordinary Schools
Children wearing hearing aids in ordinary schools are kept under
regular supervision. In addition, peripatetic teachers of the deaf attached
to the audiology units act as links between Unit and School, and are
also able to advise teachers over difficulties experienced with the children
in class.
Number of children wearing hearing aids in ordinary schools 37
Number of commercial hearing aids supplied during the year 11
Orthopaedic and Postural Defects
Children found at periodic school medical inspections or at the minor
ailments clinics to have orthopaedic or postural defects are now referred
for special advice to the Northwick Park Hospital Orthopaedic Department.
Cases requiring physiotherapy are still dealt with at the Harrow
Hospital Physical Treatment Centre. During the year, 22 pupils received
treatment at the centre.
Speech Therapy
From April until September 1970, the speech therapy department was
fully staffed by two fulltime and two part-time therapists. In September
there was a change of part-time staff and one clinic had to be temporarily
closed.

Twenty-eight schools and two of the nursery schools were visited
during the year and good co-operation with the teachers continued.
Children were referred to the speech department by medical officers,
health visitors, head teachers and general practitioners in the Borough. A
number of children were also referred from paediatricians at the following
hospitals
Great Ormond Street
Edgware General
Nuffield Hearing & Speech Centre, Gray's Inn Road