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New ideas in the assessment of handicapped
children, original research work and pioneering
activities in the training of children have attracted
great interest in the work at Martindale School and
Medical Advisory Unit.
Many home and overseas visitors come to see the
work of the unit and the school and regular visits are
paid by doctors, medical and nursing students, physiotherapists,
speech therapists, health visitors and
teachers of handicapped pupils.
As a result of the increasing number of children
referred both for assessment and for physiotherapy,
extensive alterations and additions to the unit were
commenced on 8th June 1965. The unit will be ready
for occupation at the beginning of the Autumn term
1966, and will be described in detail in my next annual
report.
Extensive research has been undertaken at the unit
and school since they opened in 1956.
For the information of those who wish to know
more of the published research work of the unit since
it opened, a list of references was given in the Annual
Report of the Principal School Medical Officer to
Middlesex County Council for the year 1963. Several
more medical papers have been published in various
medical and other journals since then, and to bring
the list completely up to date the following additional
references are given—
Abercrombie, M L J ; Gardiner, P ; Hansen, E;
Jonckheers, J ; Lindon, R L ; Solomon, G ; and
Tyson, M C
a. 'Visual, perceptual and visuo-motor impairment
in a school for physically handicapped children'.
American Journal of Perceptual and Motor Skills.
Monograph supplement 3-V18 1964 561-624
Lindon, R L—'Medical Appraisal and Classification'
Gardiner, P ; Lindon, R L ; Solomon, G—
'Ophthalmic and Orthoptic Assessment'
Abercrombie, M L J ; Davis, J R ; Shackel, B—
'Version Movements'
Abercrombie, M L J—'Wechsler Intelligence
Scale for Children'
Tyson, M C—'Shape Matching Test'
Tyson, M C—'Benton right-left Discrimination
Battery'
Hansen, E ; Lindon, R L—''Examination for
Parietal Lobe Dysfunction'
Abercrombie, M L J—-'Perception in Cerebral
Palsy'
b. Abstract report on 'Visual, perceptual and visuomotor
impairments in a school for physically
handicapped children". Little Club Clinic in
Developmental Medicine No 11 63-68
Higgon, G—'Follow-up Report of Visual
Research carried out at Martindale School'.
Spastics Quarterly, July 1964
Abercrombie, M L J ; Lindon, R L ; Tyson. M C
—'Associated Movements in normal and
physically handicapped children'. Developmental
Medicine and Child Neurology 1964, 6, 573-580
Abercrombie, M L J ; Tyson, M C—-'Body
Image and Draw-a-Man Test in Cerebral Palsy'
(in preparation)
Abercrombie, M L J ; Lindon, R L ; Tyson M C
—'Direction of drawing movements and visuomotor
disorder' (in preparation)
9. Child Guidance Clinic
The administrative responsibility for the Child
Guidance Clinic was vested in the Health Department
of the London Borough of Hounslow on 1st April
1965 when the services were transferred from the
former Middlesex County Council and the clinic was
the responsibility of the Education Department.
This clinic is staffed by a psychiatrist provided by
the Regional Hospital Board for four sessions a week,
and by educational psychologists, psychiatric social
workers, a psychotherapist and clerical staff employed
by the Council.
There is a shortage of workers in this field and at
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