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(4) Phobic Children Attending Child Guidance Centre
January: 5 children (4 girls, 1 boy) December: 3 girls
(5) The Assessment Unit
This unit has now established itself and is clearly meeting the need
of some young children for an enriched curriculum, with emphasis on
language development. Although still too early to draw any final conclusions
the evidence is that the majority of children placed in the Unit
successfully transfer to normal Infant or Junior School.
This Unit is now situated at Vaughan Infant School instead of Shaftesbury
School, and this change has helped to dispel the idea held by some
parents that the Unit is a "back door" to a special school. Mrs. Whitmarsh
maintains close contact with the children's parents. Mrs. Williams,
Educational Psychologist, has continued to assume the main responsibility
for the selection of children and subsequent transfer to other schools.