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SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICE.
Miss B. S. Gascoyne and Miss C. H. Watt, Educational
Psychologists, report as follows:-
"During the year 147 new school cases have
been tested as opposed to 115 last year.
Also, although it is not reflected in the figures
we have been involved in more referrals of school
children to the Child Guidance Clinic. 27 children
have been referred following consultation between
the head teacher and the psychologist. In a number
of cases it has proved very useful for the parents to
be able to meet the psychologist before referral to
the Child Guidance Clinic is officially instigated.
The psychologist can provide a personal link between
the school, the parents and the clinic andean answer
the parents' questions and doubts about referral, which
often reassures them. It also means they know someone
they can contact if the problem becomes more
urgent while waiting for the referral.
Two short surveys have been undertaken
with the aim of trying to asses the validity of the
Binet results in a given age group. This has, we
think, been of some value to the teaching staff in
learning more accurately the potential of their pupils ,
as it is difficult to be sure of this only from group
tests and it has also served to give a rough estimate
of the range of the age group as a whole. To the
psychologist it has yielded additional information about
the test which becomes more apparent when a series
of children of the same age are seen and it has been
valuable to see children who are normal, in that they
are neither backward in school work nor emotionally
maladjusted, although of course one or two children
were found to be borderline cases and will be kept under
observation. No results of these surveys can be given
as the numbers involved are statistically too small
and the information was intended only to be of use to
the teachers and psychologists in the area.
The maladjusted class can now be described
more accurately as a class and a half since Mrs. Shaw
joined them in September and has taken over the