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DEVELOPMENT IN PROVISION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
From the beginning of the autumn term 1970, three developments
were made in the provision of special education:
(1) The appointment of a specialist peripatetic remedial teacher based on
the Child Guidance Centre, whose main duties are to assist teachers with
their problems in providing remedial education to provide up-to-date
information on new methods and materials and to run courses. This
appointment is in addition to the existing part-time specialist teacher
(whose main task has been to deal with groups of phobic children and to
provide some tuition for children with severe learning problems) and the
part time peripatetic teacher of the deaf (who gives assistance to the
partial hearing children in ordinary schools).
(2) The setting up of an assessment unit for children of infant school age.
This unit will enable the School Medical Officer, Educational Psychologist
and teachers to assess the needs of children in this age group, who require
individual attention. It will thus be possible accurately to assess a child's
potential in order to ensure his placement in the most appropriate
educational establishment. The unit will provide a better environment for
this assessment than is possible in infant schools with the larger classes.