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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 delicste children include maiy 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 children
who are treated by a psychiatrist in hospital
or 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 handling they need without making
them conspicuous by treating them differently
from their peers.

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, psycholo
gists 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.
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 chiIdren
have learning difficulties and here the services
of the senior educational psychologist are
particularly useful

The number of children on the waiting list has
72