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A. Blind Children
At the end of 1972 there were four boys ascertained as blind. One boy attended John Aird School
as a day pupil and the other three were at Residential Schools, one at the Ruston Hall and two at Worcester
College.
The number of blind children remains the same as last year and no new cases were ascertained in
1972.
B. Partially Sighted Children
At the end of 1972 there were 23 children in this group, 15 boys and 8 girls, all attending Day Schools.
Twenty of the children attended the Inner London Education Authority Schools John Aird and New
River School. One child attends the Hogarth Infants' School Special Class for Partially Sighted and Partially
Hearing children. The other two children are at Maintained Schools.
Three children in this group were newly ascertained during 1972.
C. Deaf Children
Only three new pupils were ascertained as deaf during 1972 as compared with five in 1971 and at the
end of 1972 there were 23 children receiving special schooling in this group.
Eighteen children attend Day School, either at Blanche Nevile School in the London Borough of
Haringey, Heston School for the Deaf in the London Borough of Hounslow or in the Inner London Education
Authority Schools at Ackmar and Frank Barnes School.
Five children attend Residential School at the Royal School for the Deaf, Margate, Tewin Water,
and the Royal School for the Deaf at Cheadle Hulme and Mill Hall School.
D. Partially Hearing Children
There were 40 children ascertained in this group at the end of 1972.
Twenty of these children attended Day Special Schools outside Brent, including Partially Hearing
Units attached to ordinary schools in Heston and Tottenham.
Kingsbury Green School Partially Hearing Classes
Fourteen of the children were placed in the two special classes attached to Kingsbury Green School.
These two classes were established in 1970 and admitted mainly young children in the four to seven year old
age range with three or four children who were between seven and eight years old. This avoided withdrawing
children already placed outside Brent and enabled the very young children to be admitted to the Kingsbury
Class and so avoid the long journeys previously undertaken to Heston. Plans are now being made to establish
a Secondary age class where these children can transfer.