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Clips from the film being made of children attending the partially hearing/partially sighted unit attached to
Heston School for the Deaf.
impressions for earmoulds for use with hearing
aids. Initial difficulties of supply of National
Health Service Medresco hearing aids were
overcome and the clinic now works in close
liaison with the West Middlesex Hospital. Sixty
eight Medresco aids were issued to children for
the first time and 312 Medresco aids were
replaced or exchanged. Commercial aids are now
superior in performance to Medresco aids for
certain types of hearing loss and an increasing
number of commercial aids are being issued on
trial to children. Subsequently 46 of these aids
were bought by the various local education
authorities for their children. The small post-aural
aids are also improving in design and efficiency
and are now suitable for a proportion of children
with partial hearing losses.
The clinic received visitors from all over the
world, including many from the United States of
America and Europe. The total, including
visiting students from medical schools, colleges
of speech therapy and student teachers of the
deaf was 362. All the students attended for
teaching and usually observed a clinic. The
viewing room is much used for this purpose.
Medical Advisory Unit
The extensions to the Medical Advisory Unit
were completed in the summer of 1966 and are
now in full use. The unit formerly comprised one
large physiotherapy room, a hydrotherapy pool
with changing accommodation, a small room for
use by medical and neurological staff and a
speech therapy room in the school itself. The new
building has added a physiotherapy hall which is
divisible into two rooms by means of a folding
partition together with a store/projection room
and shower; a medical room with a one-way
viewing window, enabling children in the
physiotherapy hall to be observed for teaching
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