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continue to be promising Video-cordings have
been made during teaching sessions and have
been shown to groups of teachers, doctors and
psychologists, to illustrate the specialised
techniques used. There has been a continuous
stream of visitors from all over the country,
who have been professionally concerned with
initiating or carrying out similar work.
The other development was the pre-school
survey carried out in collaboration with
medical officers, audiometricians and speech
therapists. This is fully reported by Dr
Jepson and myself.
School Psychological Service
I am grateful to Mr B R Barnett BA for
submitting the following report:
The tables below show the number of
referrals, source or referral, type of problem
and action taken,
The total number of referrals was 240 and
may be compared with the 1968 figure of 357
This drop in referral rate may be explained by
the absence because of study leave and sick
leave of two of the educational psychologists
for several months in the latter half of the year
The pattern of referrals appears to be similar
to previous years
Staff
At all levels the department has benefited
from the fact that staffing has been extremely
stable Jrs B Edmonds-Smith and Mrs S Brown
clerical officers, have been instrumental in
providing a regular office routine previously
missing due to statf changes and which
enabled the professional work to be carried
out more efficiently. Miss K Fleetwood
(educational social worker, part time) was
appointed in December 1969 to work in
close liaison with the educational
psychologists.
Child guidance centre- individual remedial
treatment.
Mrs Marjory Kinnon who is responsible for
this work has made the following summary
Remedial work including counselling has
been carried out throughout the year Definite
improvement in attitude to learning and in