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89 children (39 boys and 50 girls) were involved, 59 being of school
age. In addition to this work, 210 supervision visits were paid to different
cases, some of which were made to those reported during the previous year.
The Invalid Children's Aid Association.—
Number of Ilford school children:—
Sent to Recuperation Holiday Homes 18
Loaned television set 2
Loaned push chair 1
Loaned invalid chair 6
Loaned tricycle 2
Supplied with clothing 2
Numerous escorts provided to London or to Convalescent Homes
by Voluntary Workers.
Handicapped Children.
Section 33 of the Education Act, 1944, and the regulations made thereunder
have placed on the Local Education Authorities new responsibilities
for the provision of suitable education of children suffering from disability
of mind or body.
A record of all such children is revised annually from returns submitted
by all Head Teachers, and any new cases attending local maintained
schools are reported to me with a view to medical examination and ascertainment
of their suitability or otherwise of attendance at an ordinary
school.
The several categories of pupils requiring special educational treatment
as defined in the Handicapped Pupils (Certificate) Regulations, 1953,
which came into operation on 16th December, 1953, are as follows:—
(а) Blind Pupils, that is to say, pupils who have no sight or whose
sight is or is likely to become so defective that they require
education by methods not involving the use of sight.
(b) Partially Sighted Pupils, that is to say, pupils who by reason of
defective vision cannot follow the normal regime of ordinary
schools without detriment to their sight or to their educational
development, but can be educated by special methods involving
the use of sight.
(c) Deaf Pupils, that is to say, pupils who have no hearing or whose
hearing is so defective that they require education by methods
used for deaf pupils without naturally acquired speech or language.
(d) Partially Deaf Pupils, that is to say, pupils who have some
naturally acquired speech and language but whose hearing is so
defective that they require for their education special arrangements
or facilities though not necessarily all the educational
methods used for deaf pupils.
(e) Educationally Sub-Normal Pupils, that is to say, pupils who, by
reason of limited ability or other conditions resulting in educational
retardation, require some specialised form of education
wholly or partly in substitution for the education normally given
in ordinary schools.
(f) Epileptic Pupils, that is to say, pupils who by reason of epilepsy
cannot be educated under the normal regime of ordinary schools
without detriment to themselves or other pupils.
(g) Maladjusted Pupils, that is to say, pupils who show evidence of
emotional instability or psychological disturbance and require
special educational treatment in order to effect their personal,
social or educational readjustment.