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34.
SPECIAL SCHOOLS
Wm. Morris School for the Deaf. - Mr. K.S. Pegg, Headmaster,
reports as follows:-

"The children on roll at the end of the year were
classified as follows:-
Under 5
5-11
Over 11
Totals
Deaf
Boys
_
7
4
11
Girls
3
3
4
10
Partially Deaf
Boys
–
6
7
13
Girls
-
8
7
15
Totals
3
24
22
The children
who left were placed as follows:-
Employment
Further training
Residential
Deaf Schools
P.D.
Uni ts
Hearing
Schools
8
1
2
2
4
CATCHMENT AREA
Barking 2 (2)
Leyton 9 (2)
S. E. Essex 1
Forest 14 (3)
S. Essex 1
Romford 6 (1)
Ilford 11 (1)
Walthamstow 5
(Figures in brackets indicate children travelling by public
transport)
Agerage number on roll 54 Average Attendance 50
"Children continue to attend the Audiology Unit, Gray's
Inn Road, so that impressions may be taken for hearing aid
inserts, and during the year children took part in an experiment
concerned with binaural speech audiometry tests. Following
these tests a number of children were issued with two
individual hearing aids in an attempt to prove the value of
binaural listening, especially for children with a dissimilar
hearing loss in each ear.
"In March. Dr. Dooley visited the school to re-examine
children referred from the general medical inspection, and in
June Mr. Taylor conducted a full dental inspection. Miss Smith,
the Educational Psychologist, has made a number of visits to
test children.
"During October each child was issued with an 0.L.57
individual hearing aid with a special case - there were six
types of case each made from a different material in an