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the clinic and teaching staff.
The Marjory Kinnon School (Bedfont)

The number of children with additional handicaps
continues to increase and twice weekly
visits by a physiotherapist ensures that these
children have adequate treatment, This year
there were 4 children with hemiplegia and 7 with
other congenital orthopaedic defects, and treatment
was also provided for 6 children with chronic
chest complaints.
All new entrants to the school are assessed
for speech and/or language problems and 27
children were receiving regular speech therapy
at the end of the year. A further 18 children were
under supervision.
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 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,
Townhill Park (Southampton)
This residential school for educationally subnormal
girls between the ages of 6 and 12 years
has accommodation for 55 pupils. The majority
of the girls are not from the Borough of Hounslow
but from areas where the population is more
scattered and where day-school facilities are
inappropriate in view of the travelling involved.
The school itself is on the outskirts of South
ampton and children enjoy the countryside around
the school as well as the ponies kept in their
own field.
In December 1968 there were 30 girls at this
school and they came from:-
London Borough of Barnet 1
London Borough of Brent 1
London Borough of Hounslow 2
I.L.E.A. 2
Buckinghamshire 2
Hampshire 16
Kent 1
Somerset 1
Warwickshire 4
Aftercare of handicapped pupils
Case conferences are called by the head teachers
of the special schools and the Principal School
Medical Officer concerned to discuss the special
problems which arise when handicapped children
reach school leaving age. The Youth Employment
Officer and representatives of the Welfare Department
attend and where appropriate, those repre
senting voluntary organisations such as the
Spastic Society and Fellowship for Poliomyelitis
are also invited Arrangements are fully discussed
with the parents and where assistance from the
Department of Employment and Productivity scheme
for disabled persons is required this is arranged by
the Youth Employment Officer.
Martindale School is fortunate in having a further
education unit which provides largely for its own
pupils who on reaching the age of 16, require
further instruction before they can satisfactorily be
placed in employment. It has now become possible
for pupils from the Marjory Kinnon and Busch House
schools to share the facilities which this unit
offers.
There remain always some children who are ao
severely handicapped that no employment is
possible, and for these particularly the Welfare
Department is able to provide help.
Education otherwise than at school
Consideration is given to providing home tuition
to handicapped children awaiting admission to
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