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Probation Officers 10
Chief Education Officer 40
Child Care Officer 8
Speech Therapist 6
West Middlesex Hospital Psychiatric Department 6
Education Welfare Officer 10
Child Guidance Clinics—transfer to this area 4
General Practitioners 4
Total 282
Types of problem
Behaviour 45
Under achievement 23
Poor reading 36
Slow progress 30
Psychological assessment 32
Query educationally sub-normal 15
School refusal 11
Truancy 5
School transfer 5
Backwardness 30
School placement 20
Enuresis 4
Pilfering 6
Secondary selection 20
Total 282
Disposal
Referred to psychiatrist and psychiatric social
worker (social history) 28
Referred to psychiatric social worker 15
Recommendation for placement in a school for
the educationally sub-normal 19
Further review 46
Remedial centre 18
Individual remedial help 8
Follow-up school visits 38
School placement 20
Treatment waiting list 4
Regular interviews with educational psychologist 9
Appointments not required 25
Outstanding 52
Total 282
Number of school visits: 164
Number of residential school visits: 5.'
Handicapped Pupils
The Education Act places on local education
authorities the duties of ascertaining which pupils in
their area are handicapped and of providing special
educational treatment for such pupils. The several
categories of pupils requiring special educational
treatment are defined in the Handicapped Pupils and
Special School Regulations as follows—
Blind Epileptic
Partially sighted Maladjusted
Deaf Physically handicapped
Partially hearing Suffering from speech
defects
Educationally sub-normal Delicate
For the purposes of these regulations, ascertainment
applies from the age of two years. A blind or deaf
child must be educated at a special school unless the
Minister approves otherwise.
Special educational treatment for other handicaps
may be provided in an ordinary school with the
stipulation that the special educational treatment must
be appropriate to the disability.
The number of ascertained handicapped pupils and
the arrangements made for their special educational
treatment are shown in the following table—
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