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DAY SPECIAL SCHOOLS.
St. Hilda's Day Special School for Educationally Sub-normal Children, Barnes.
Admissions during 1965 10
Discharges during 1965 6
Transferred to ordinary schools 2
Transferred to senior day E.S.N, school 2
Transferred to residential E.S.N, school 1
Left district 1
No. of children on roll as at 31st December, 1965 23
Clarendon Day Special School for Educationally Sub-normal Children, Twickenham.
Admissions during 1965 26
Discharges during 1965 13
Transferred to senior day E.S.N, school 7
Transferred to ordinary schools 4
Transferred to Athelstan House Autistic Unit 1
Left district 1
No. of children on roll as at 31st December, 1965 47
Oldfield House Day Special School for Maladjusted Children, Hampton.
Admissions during 1965 13
Discharges during 1965 17
Transferred to ordinary schools 8
Transferred to senior day E.S.N. school 2
Transferred to residential schools 4
Transferred to Junior Day E.S.N. school 1
Transferred to Day Special School for physically
handicapped 1
Emigrated 1
No. of children on roll as at 31st December, 1965 33
Athelstan House Autistic Unit, Hampton.
Admissions during 1965 3
Discharges during 1965 1
Discharged as unsuitable (referred to hospital for further
investigation) 1
No. of children on roll as at 31st December, 1965 2
Handicapped Pupils.
Mental disorders, including maladjusted and educationally sub-normal children,
constitute the greatest proportion of handicapped children who require special educational
facilities. Many of the children deemed delicate suffer from pyschosomatic
disturbances which make it difficult for them to cope with the stresses of normal school
life. In other words many such children suffer from more than one defect. It is not
an easy task to define the category of handicap for the purposes of special educational
treatment. Therefore a child on entering a special school is ono trial, and a change of
school may be indicated when a secondary defect becomes dominant.
All handicapped children attending special schools, either day or residential, are
medically reviewed by the School Health Service at least once a year, and sometimes
more frequently so that their progress and special educational treatment can be assessed.
During 1965 reports were issued to the Local Health Authority under Section 57
(4) of the Education Act, 1944, regarding three children who were found unsuitable
for education at school.
Information was passed to the Local Health Authority about seven educationally
sub-normal children who required supervision after leaving school.
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