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A total of 16 children, 9 boys and 7 girls are ascertained as partially sighted. Six of them, 3 boys
and 3 girls are able to be educated in ordinary schools. Annual re-assessments of their progress
and medical needs will decide their future placement if a change of education is necessary. Eight
children (5 boys and 3 girls) attend the Inner London Education Authority's School for Partially
Sighted at Hammersmith. One girl is placed at Linden Lodge School, S.W.19 and a boy is entered
at Exhall Grange.
(C) Deaf
In residential special schools 3
In day special schools 7
In ordinary schools 1
Children ascertained in 1972 1
Two children (one boy and one girl) attend the Royal School for the Deaf at Margate and one
girl attends the Woodford School for the Deaf, E.18.
(D) Partially hearing
In day special schools 5
In day special classes 17
In day nurseries 3
In ordinary schools 23
Children ascertained in 1972 7
After preliminary screening and examination at child health or school health clinics most
children with a hearing loss are referred to the Heston Hearing Unit at Vicarage Farm Road, Hounslow.
This Clinic is under the direction of Dr. L. Fisch, Consultant Otologist who has a staff of medical,
educational, paramedical and social welfare officers to assist in the exacting assessment of the
child and his/her educational and social needs. After the assessment and close consultation with the
parents, the Principal School Medical Officer and the Director of Education, a recommendation is
made for the child's educational future. As will be seen from the figures most will be able to be contained
in ordinary schools, perhaps with some adjustment of their position in the class, or by the
issue and use of a hearing aid. Others, depending upon the degree of hearing loss, will need the more
sheltered and specially equipped classroom of the special school or a special class in an ordinary
school. In the latter case, the children are integrated into the normal school for group and school
activities, but receive more individual attention from a specially qualified teacher of the deaf in
academic subjects.
A peripatetic teacher of the deaf is employed to visit schools which have partially hearing
pupils in thetr classes to discuss problems presented to the teachers by these children and to assess
progress; she also maintains the contact with the home.
Three children under the age of 5 years are placed in day nurseries on account of hearing disability.
The children are thereby encouraged to communicate with others having normal hearing and
speech, the enriched experience gained greatly assists them when schooling begins at ordinary or
special school.
(E) Educationally sub-normal pupils
In residential special schools 40
In day special schools 374
In ordinary schools 5
Pre-school children placed in day nurseries 1
Pre-school children recommended for special school 10
Children recommended for special schools 3
Children ascertained in 1972 109
There are three schools for the education of the educationally sub-normal pupil within the
Borough—Hedgewood School, Meadow School and Moorcroft School. Children who require
residential special schooling are accommodated at various schools managed by other local education
authorities e.g. Swaylands School, Penhurst, St. John's School, Brighton, etc. Forty children (28
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