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Children Wearing Hearing Aids in Ordinary Schools
Children attending ordinary schools and using a hearing aid are kept
under regular supervision by peripatetic teachers of the deaf attached to
the Audiology Unit. They act as a link between Unit and School and are
able to advise teachers over difficulties experienced with the children in
class.
There are 24 children wearing hearing aids attending ordinary
schools.
Orthopaedic and Postural Defects
Children found at school medical inspections or at the school clinics
to have orthopaedic or postural defects are referred for special advice to
the Orthopaedic Department at Northwick Park Hospital.
Speech Therapy
During the year several members of the speech thereapy staff left the
department. One full-time Speech Therapist left in August and in November
we lost the service of Mrs. Dix, the Senior Speech Therapist, neither of
whom were we able to replace. This left us with only two part-time
therapists and a number of clinics had to be closed.

Children were referred to the speech department by medical officers,
head teachers, general practitioners, local hospitals and the Nuffield
Hearing and Speech Centre.
At the beginning of the year 360 children were already receiving
treatment and there were 217 new admissions throughout the year. The
total number of children receiving speech therapy was 577 and the
number discharged was 223.
CHILD GUIDANCE AND SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES
I am indebted to the Director of Education Mr. R. S. Ball, for the
following reports on the work of the Child Guidance and School Psychological
Services during the year.