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The number of referrals by parents shows a continued increase and
there is also a very substantial increase in the number of children referred
by General Practitioners with whom there is gradually growing up a much
closer contact.
Classification of the problems of children referred is, of course,
very difficult. However, an attempt has been made at the analysis of problems
of children who remained under treatment at the end of the year with the
following results:-

The above data are taken from the problems as referred and many children
present several problems at the same time.
There are, of course, a very great number of other children who are seen
by the Educational psychologists for difficulties in learning; the numbers
quoted above as "learning difficulties" refer to those cases where the difficulty
appears to be directly associated with an emotional problem. A more systematic
enquiry will be conducted during 1961 as part of a large scale analysis of
patterns of referral problems being conducted by the University of Birmingham."
Speech Therapy Clinic
"Miss R. Sacks, Speech Therapist, presents the following report on the
work of this clinic.
A total of 1,101 attendances was made at the clinic during 1960. This
figure does not include the children seen at Lansbury E.S.N. School, an average
of 12 children a week being seen there during term time.
Sixty-eight new cases were referred for speech therapy and appointments
were made for fifty-eight new children to attend (but only thirty-eight out of
that number actually began treatment here).