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(d) School for the Physically Handicapped.- Mr. G.M.
Williams, Headmaster of the Wingfield House School,
reports as follows: -
"At the end of the year the number of children on
roll reached the unusually low figure of seventy three,
since it had been found possible to discharge thirty five
children, of which twenty six transferred to other schools.
As before, in many cases physical handicap is often
allied with dull or poor intellectual capacity and sixteen
children on roll have intelligence quotients in the 60-80
range. Thirteen children have had regular speech therapy
during the year and twenty six attended the physiotherapy
clinic. There were seven non-ambulant children on roll.
During the summer holiday period the school was kept
open on a voluntary basis. Thirty one children attended
and made a 77.8% attendance. Visits were arranged to
Shoeburyness, Whipsnade and the Forest. Visitors to the
school included post graduate Medical Students from Whipps
Cross Hospital, Student Teacher and a visiting teacher
from Rhodesia.
The school premises and facilities were granted to
the Kingsley Physically Handicapped School for a day
visit to London in the Summer Term.
The school also offered facilities to the Walthamstow
Care Committee of the Essex I.C. A. A. which met on two
occasions during the year.
The school enjoyed the valued co-operation of Miss
Garratt of the Orthopaedic Clinic, and of Miss Rasor of
the Speech Clinic. In the Summer holiday Miss Rasor went
to the U.S.A., and in her place we welcomed Dr. Eisenstadt.
an American Spegch Therapist, who has proved a most agreeable
colleague. Miss Smith, the educational psychologist