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School Psychological Service
I am grateful to Mrs M Pears BA for submitting
the following report
This was a difficult year for the school
psychological service Illness shortage and
changes of staff and the difficulty of working
from School Road when the child guidance
clinic had moved to the new health centre,
combined to reduce the efficiency of the
service as a whole though great efforts were
made to make school needs a priority and to
maintain the usual close contact with head
teachers
Source
Head teacher 163
Health 21
Parents 12
Hearing clinic 4
Education 3
Child guidance clinic 2
Remedial reading teacher 2
Speech 1
Educational Welfare Officer 1
Prooation officer 1
Central Middlesex Hospital 1
Great Ormond Street (clinic psychologist) 1
Total referrals 217
Problem
Learning 92
Behaviour 57
Assessment 47
Learning and behaviour 14
Persistent non attenders 7
Total 217
Disposal
No further action 37
Transferred to child guidance clinic 28
Educational social worker visiting 26
Follow up 25
Parents advised 20
Remedial help 19
Head teacher advised 12
Disposal (contd.)
Educationally subnormal recommended 11
Individual help (4 of these on waiting
list still) 11
Moved away 11
School placement 5
Speech therapy 3
West Middlesex Hospital 3
Dr Tyson 2
Belmont remedial centre 1
Busch House 1
Other 2
Total 217
Staff
Mrs Edmonds Smith carried the main responsi
bility for all clerical duties through a long
period of temporary help after the departure of
Mrs Brown in April She was joined by Mrs Fishei
in July and a satisfactory routine was once again
established in the office.
Mr Barnett left in July to take up a research
post at the National Foundation for Educational
Reseach and in September Mrs Pears was
appointed senior psychologist in his place.
Miss P Jaeger (from Tasmania) joined the
team as a temporary psychologist in November
during Mrs de Speville's illness and hopes to
remain until the appointment of the third
permanent psychologist when the school
psychological service should be back to full
strength.
Remedial Centres
In September a team of five full time and fourteen
part time remedial teachers was formed so that
remedial teaching could be given daily in the
child's own primary school to all children
requiring help either individually or in small
groups. These teachers some of whom are
peripatetic are visited by the educational
psychologists and it is hoped thattime will be
made for regular discussion with them about
difficult cases who have not responded to the
help offered.
Where it is considered that an individual
child requires specialist teaching which cannot
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