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There is no Special Day School for mentally defective
children.
There are special classes for retarded children at Bonner
Hill Road Infants' School, where instruction is based upon
the Montessori System, at the Junior Mixed, and Central
Girls' and also at Richmond Road Central Boys' School.
Very backward and feeble minded children in the
Borough are transferred to these special classes on the
recommendation of the School Medical Officer.
There is one feeble minded child at a Certified School
for Mentally Defective Children.
There is one deaf child at a Certified School for the
Deaf.
There is one partially sighted child attending a Certified
School.
There are no cases of severe epilepsy but four mild cases
are attending ordinary Elementary Schools.
Ten crippled children and ten suffering from heart
disease a're attending the Special Open Air Day School.
In addition there are twenty delicate children suffering
from various defects attending this School.
SPEECH TRAINING.
A class for children suffering from defective speech
is held on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. A description
of the wo'rk was set out in the Annual Report for
1934.
Miss Badcock, who is in charge of the Class, reports
as follows:—
"Between January 1st. 1936 and December 31st. 1936,
twenty one children have been attending the clinic.
During this period four children were discharged with
normal speech, three left school at the age of fourteen, and
three left the district leaving eleven children on the registe'r
at the end of the year.
Of the four children who were discharged with normal
speech, two were stammere'rs.