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The number of cases treated has increased slightly and
although a larger number of children were discharged, a higher
number of children remained under treatment at the end of the year.
The pre-school groups continued to provide help for
young children who suffer from various epeech defects, and student
speech therapists from the London Training Schools worked with these
groups under the guidance of qualified therapists.
In addition to sessions held in the clinics, certain
schools are visited which are either at an appreciable distance, or
an awkward journey from the nearest clinic. so that children are able
to benefit by regular treatment.
The number of children attending Bedelsford School who
required speech therapy continued to decrease due to the changing
pattern of physical disability from which the children suffer. At
St. Philip's School, Chessington, the number of educationally retarded
children who required treatment for speech defects continued to
increase.
During the latter part of the year children with severe
speech defects were under consideration for possible admission to
the proposed unit for speech handicapped children, which is expected
to commence functioning during 1971.