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During the calendar year ended 31st December
1965—
Number of children who were the subject of
new decisions recorded under Section 57 of
the Education Act 1944 Nil
Number of reviews carried out under the
provisions of Section 57A of the Education
Act 1944 Nil
Number of decisions cancelled under Section
57A (2) of the Education Act 1944 Nil
Some handicapped children suffer from more than
one disability, eg physically handicapped and partially
hearing, epileptic and educationally sub-normal, but
are classified in the table under the major handicap.
The following special schools for handicapped
pupils are maintained by the Education Committee.
Although these schools are attended principally by
children who live in the Borough, children from other
areas are admitted by arrangement with their local
education authorities.
1. Busch House School (Isleworth)
This school was opened in 1938 as a day open air
school for 140 delicate pupils. In 1964 it was adapted
to take delicate children and children suffering from
minor degrees of maladjustment and the total
accommodation reduced from 140 to 100.
A medical officer visits the school weekly to supervise
the delicate children and deal with any minor
ailments, to maintain close liaison with the head
teacher in regard to pupils in the school and to make
recommendations for admission or discharge.
The psychiatrist from the Child Guidance Clinic
spends one session weekly at the school and the
services of the educational psychologists and
psychiatric social workers are available.
At the end of the year there were 51 delicate and
46 malajusted pupils in attendance. The majority of
the delicate children suffer from asthma or recurrent
bronchitis and a physiotherapist attends three times a
week to give training in breathing exercises.
2. Martindale School (Hounslow)
This is a day school for physically handicapped
children with accommodation for 110 pupils.
Furniture and apparatus capable of being adapted to
the needs of the pupils is in use and facilities are
available for hydrotherapy, physiotherapy and speech
therapy. The majority of the pupils suffer from
cerebral palsy and many are dependent on wheel
chairs for locomotion. Close co-operation between
the teaching and medical staff is necessary to secure a
reasonable balance between the educational and
treatment needs of the child and to make the best of
his physical and intellectual potentials. Many of these
children have learning difficulties and here the services
of the senior educational psychologist are particularly
useful.
3. Heston School for the Deaf (Heston)
This day school, with its associated classes for the
partially hearing in Townfield and Harlington
Secondary Schools, Springwell Infant, Springwell
Junior, Norwood Green Infant and Norwood Green
Junior Schools provides accommodation for 130 deaf
and partially hearing pupils. The medical officer to
the Hearing Clinic gives general medical supervision
of these pupils and there is full discussion of hearing
and learning difficulties between the clinic and
teaching staff.
4. Old School (Bedfont)
This day school for educationally sub-normal pupils
has accommodation for 160 children and at the end
of the year had 103 boys and 57 girls. Weekly visits
are made by a medical officer to provide general
medical supervision and for consultation on specific
problems as they arise among the pupils, of whom a
proportion suffer from some physical disability.
Leavers' conferences with the Head Teacher and
Youth Employment Officer are held twice yearly and
the medical officer of the Mental Health Department
is consulted where it is thought that some follow-up
and guidance after leaving school may be necessary.
The school maintains contact with the Kitson Youth
Club for Handicapped Persons which is run by a
former pupil of the school.
5. Townhill Park (Southampton)
This residential school for educationally subnormal
girls has accommodation for 55 pupils. A
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