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Special schools
Four special day schools for handicapped pupils
are maintained by the education committee
High quality diagnostic and therapeutic services
continued to be provided at the special schools
by the borough's doctors, psychologists,
nurses, speech therapists, physiotherapists
audiometricians, orthoptist and social workers,
Provision is also made in recommended cases
for some handicapped pupils under five years
of age to be admitted to day nurseries
Busch House School (Isleworth).
This school caters for delicate and maladjusted
children. Because of the nature of handicaps,
seriously aggressive children are not admitted.
The delicate children i nclude many with
chronic physical conditions. The school has
places for 100 children divided equally
between delicate and maladjusted pupils.
The maladjusted children are under the
psychiatric care of the psychiatrist from the
child guidance clinic except for a few who
are treated by a psychiatrist in hospital or
one from another borough. A senior school
medical officer visits the school weekly to
advise on the care of the delicate children
and to supervise the health of the maladjusted
group Many of the maladjusted children
suffer from a temporary or chronic physical
illness, or from overt physical symptoms
It is valuable to be able to obtain psychiatric
advice for many of the delicate children, who
are as much handicapped by emotional
disorders consequent on their illness and
associated hospitalisation as by the physical
illness itself In such a mixed school these
children are able to receive the special care
they need without making them conspicuous
bv treatina them differentlv from their peers

Martindale School (Hounslow)
This is a day school for physically handicapped
children with a closely associated medical unit.
Furniture and apparatus capable of being
adapted to the needs of the pupils is in use
and facilities are available for hydrotherapy,
physiotherapy and speech therapy. The majority
of the pupils suffer from cerebral palsy and
many are dependent on wheel chairs for
locomotion. Close co-operation between the
teaching and medical staff is necessary to
secure a reasonable balance between the
educational and treatment needs of the child
and to make the best of his physical and
intellectual potentials. Many of these children
have learning difficulties and here the services
of the senior educational psychologist are
particularly useful

Martindale School Leavers
This year a survey was made of the 89 children
who hive left Martindale School since it opened
in 1957 in an attempt to find out how successfully
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