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an artefact since the 1967 total included
follow up cases whereas the 1968 total does
not and a large number of follow up cases
have been re referred
Staff changes
(a) Clerical Mrs B Edmonds Smith and
Mrs S Brown joined the department in September
1968 and have since given stability to what was
an unsettled secretarial situation
(b) Psychologists Mrs C Dunne left the
service in August 1968 to take up a senior
teaching post at the Tavistock Centre
Mrs C de Speville also from the Tavistock
Centre joined us in September 1968 thus
ensuring continuity particularly in the Brentford
and Chiswick end of the borough in the
service to the chiIdren and schools
We were also very pleased to welcome back
Mrs M Tagg on a part-time basis She has
spent much of her time working closely with the
new comprehensive schools, seeing children and
advising in the new remedial departments.
(c) Remedial These staff are strictly speaking
special services staff who are attached to the
school psychological service There have been
a number of changes in 1968 Mrs M Landa who
worked part-time at the centre and part time in
a secondary school retired through illness
having given very valuable service Mrs Trembath
teacher at Isleworth Town left after only
one term to move to a different part of the
country We were fortunate to obtain the services
for one term of Mr B Bridges prior to his
teaching appointment at Busch House School
The situation at the centre was stabilised when
Mrs S Ives took over in September
Remedial Treatment
A Centres in schools
The two centres have continued under Mrs
Ives (Isleworth) and Miss Norman (Chiswick)
(i) Feltham Centre A third centre was opened
in the Feltham part of the borough in September
1968 Mrs M Duncan was appointed teacher in
charge. 24 children were admitted in the first
term for remedial treatment
(ii) Chiswick centre Miss Norman teacher
in -charge of the Belmont centre saw 23 children
for reading help in the spring term 1968 These
children came to the centre in small groups for 2
3 or 4 half sessions each per week Recently Miss
Norman has been able to increase these sessions
at the centre In the summer 1968 Miss Norman
has given remedial reading help to 29 children
again for 2 3 or 4 half sessions per week and since
September 1968, 2 of the 29 chiIdren have been seen
for short individual sessions twice a week
(iii) Isleworth Town centre During the year 1968
69 Mrs Ives has had approximately 20 children at
the remedial centre There are 2 groups each of 10
children who attend for 4 half sessions each week
About 40% of the children at the centre are from
Isleworth Town school itself and the remainder from
neighbouring schools
B. Individual Remedial Help at the Child Guidance
Centre
A number of children receive individual help
because of their emotional disturbance or their
specific learning disabilities
During the school year September 1968 to July
1969 1 4 children 11 boys and 3 girIs have been
seen each for one hour per week Of these 5 are
attending primary school and 9 secondary school
Three children have discontinued attending during the
year one due to change of residence and school and
two because it was felt that individual help could be
discontinued without detriment to the child A further
two children will not attend after the end of the
present term as sufficient progress has been made to
justify their return to normal school conditions
Reasons for the provision of individual help
include
(a) Counselling where emotional disturbance is
affecting development and progress in school
subjects
(b) Visual motor defects which have led to behaviour
problems and failure in school subjects requiring
motor control
(c) Speech defect causing poor development of
language and reading difficulty
(d) Reading failure due to varying causes
The above account has been written by Mrs
M Kinnon who works at the remedial centre A
number of other children (18) have also been seen
by the remedial centre teachers who have worked
half day a week in the child guidance centre and
by the educational psychologists The type of help
offered varied with the needs of the child concerned
and ranged from remedial teaching to therapeutic
counselling
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