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metricians from other centres have visited
the clinic and peripatetic teachers of the deaf
from the University of London
In February a four day course in developmental
paediatrics for in-service training of
the borough medical officers was held This
was also attended by representatives from
Hillingdon Ealing and Richmond
Visitors from many parts of the world
came to the clinic during the year, A group
of 18 Japanese on their way to the congress
at Stockholm and a group of psychology
students from America also post graduate
doctors and medical students from America
and Turkey, Several groups of people from
different areas of the United Kingdom came
to see the clinic facilities. Amongst these
were representatives from several Regional
Hospital Boards who were hoping to set up
similar facilities in their areas
Dr Fisch gave the following lectures and
papers during the year.
Lectures, Deaf teachers course Oxford
3 lectures at the Aldrey Fleming
college for speech therapy.
School for the deaf Liverpool,
Course for doctors at the centre
for spastic children
Assessment of hearing in children
with double handicaps Hospital
for Sick Children Great Ormond
Street
International Symposium Sonnenberg
Germany on assessment of
hearing in the multiply handicapped
Course on developmental paedia
tries Cambridge
Course on developmental paedia
tries Bristol
Course on developmental paedia
tries Bournemouth
Health visitors course Tottenham
Papers; System Analysis of neuro-sensori
hearing loss paper given at British
Society of Audiology meeting.
In print.
The probability of response to
test sounds in young children
paper read at British Society of
Audiology meeting published
in Sound,
The selective differential vulnerability
of the auditory system
published in Cioa Foundation.
Symposium on sensori neural
hearing loss 1970
Mrs M Home was seconded to the audiology
technician's course at the Institute of Laryngology
and Otology at Gray s Inn Road, London
W C 1.
Medical Advisory Unit and Cerebral Palsy Unit
The referral of multiply handicapped children
to this unit for diagnosis assessment and
recommendation for educational placement
continues During the year a total of 112
children were seen as outpatients of whom 50
were of school age and 62 of pre school age
34 of the children of pre-school age had
cerebral palsy 21 had spina bifida and 7 had
other physical defects 23 of the children of
school age had cerebral palsy, 8 had spina
bifida and 19 had other defects 97 pupils
attending Martindale School were examined
during the year.