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SPEECH CLINICS.
Mrs. M. Walker, the Senior Speech Therapist, reports
on the work of the Speech Clinics during I960 as follows

We were very glad to welcome Mrs. Tingey
to "our ranks" this year and consider ourselves most
fortunate in gaining a colleague with such wide and
excellent experience. Mrs. Tingey had a great deal
to do with the 'Leicester experiment', giving daily
speech therapy treatments to their class of children
with 'stubborn' speech defects and disorders who axe
housed in an ordinary school, and we have found that
deep knowledge and understanding of her work has
been invaluable.
The number of treatments given annually continues
to increase although there has been no increase
in the number of speech therapy sessions. Something
has had to suffer, so that apart from actual treatments
given in some of the larger schools which have
a sufficient number of speech defective children to
warrant treatment on the premises, there has been
little or no school visiting as such. This is unfortunate
since many schools now fully appreciate the utter
necessity of frequent personal contact between speech
therapists and teachers in order to maintain consistency
of handling of the children, and to promote an
atmosphere conducive to steady improvement.
There has been more frequent contact with
Ilford Child Guidance Clinic this year, and we are
most grateful for the help we receive and know that
the benefits are felt by both therapists and children. "