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social worker We were glad to welcome Miss
Ison to fill this new appointment as it meant
that we were then in a position to offer appointments
to those who had been kept waiting in
some cases for well over a vear
The high proportion of the cases who come
to the clinic are chiefly helped by the psychiatric
social worker with onlv an occasional
interview with the educational psychologist or
psychiatrist This works very well in selected
cases but there are other cases where it is
most desirable that some more help should be
offered individually to a child
We suffered last year from a shortage of
psychotherapists We were sorry that Dr
Clements resigned her sessions and Mrs
Henrv and Mrs 3zuralso reduced the number
of sessions thev come to the clinic This is
reflected in the few children who received
ongoing psvchotherapv
The children s department continue to attend
regular weekly seminars Cases of special
difficulty were discussed as well as general
problems These meetings were well attended
and felt to be of value to both departments
The report on persistent non attenders was
completed and presented to the officer s co
ordinating committee the education committee
and children s committee As a result of the
report regular monthly meetings are now held
between the education welfare officers child
care officers and staff of the child guidance
clinic as co ordination between the services
it is hoped can be improved in this wav It
is felt that much still needs to be done to
brng the emotional needs of children and the
inadequately recognised extent of the problem
of persistent non attendance to the attention
of schools
We were sorry to lose Mrs Dunne educa
tional psychologist who took up a teaching
post as the Tavistock Clinic and glad to
welcome Mrs De Speville to take her place
Analysis of cases referred to child guidance
clinic 1963
New referrals in 1963 194
New cases seen bv psychiatrist 109
Cases treated bv psychotherapist 16
Cases seen bv psvchiatric social
workers who continued to work with
family 156
52
Waiting list for psychiatric social worker 51
at 31 12.63
Waiting list for psychiatrist at 31 12 63 27
Waiting list for psychotherapist at 31 12 63 32
Source of referrals
Educational psychologist education depart
ment schools etc 35
School medical officers 50
Parents 24
General practitioners Hospitals etc 12
Children s Department 14
Probation Officers 5
Others 4
Senior Psychologist for Special Units and Special
Schools
I am again grateful to Dr Mova Tyson BA BSc (Econ)
PhD for the following report
While the routine work of assessment and advice
in special units and special schools continued to
develop in 1963 several additional activities were
begun growing partly out of experience gained
during by Churchill Fellowship travels in the USA
in the previous six months One of these projects
the experimental summer school is described in
detail later in this report out of the experience
gained has arisen the regular Fridav morning
diagnostic class at my office in the hearing clinic
for a group of younger children retarded in language
development and the regular morning class of a
similar nature at Busch Corner clinic All this
diagnostic educational work has been carried out in
conjunction with Mrs Cox senior speech therapist
and her team of speech therapists indeed one of
the most valuable developments of 1963 has been
the close working relationship which has developed
with the speech therapists
As usual lectures were given to many profes
sional groups at courses for or conferences of
paediatricians ophthalmologists paedodontists
medical officers educational psychologists teachers
and speech therapists As President of the Association
for Special Education Middlesex Branch I
gave an address at St Mary s College of Education
to the annual general meeting on the subject of mv
travels as a Churchill Fellow in the USA
I continued to act as examiner of teaching
practice to the two vear course for teachers of
mentally handicapped children at Chiswick Polytechnic
and visited several junior training schools
during the students final teaching practice mostly