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(7) Lying 10
(8) Truancy 3
(9) Sex difficulty 3
Psychotic Behaviour —
Educational Difficulties:
(1) Backwardness 12
(2) Inability to concentrate 3
Note: The above figures include children presenting more
than one symptom.
Cases under treatment at end of December, 1946:
Occasional Psychiatric interview 3
Fortnightly „ „ 3
Weekly „ „ 4
Weekly coaching 4
Weekly play group 4
10 children attend clinic, together with their mothers,
who are seen by the Psychiatric Social Worker.
8 children attend clinic alone.
Interviews from January to December, 1946:
Psychiatrists' interviews 260
Psychologists' „ 350
(Tests 77)
(Individual treatment 246)
(Remedial Coaching 15)
(Play Group 12)
Psychiatric Social Workers:
Interviews in Clinic 407
School Visits 54
Home Visits 44
HANDICAPPED CHILDREN
(a) ASCERTAINMENT. Children who are suffering from
conditions which might constitute a handicap to their education
are brought to notice from various sources; for example, from
the school welfare department, from the maternity and child
welfare department, from school doctors, from hospitals and
other voluntary associations. Their examination and " ascertainment,"
with a view to providing suitable special educational
treatment, is in the hands of specialists in certain conditions
(e.g., blindness and deafness), and is made by the Chief Assistant
School Medical Officer in most other cases.
(b) BLIND AND PARTIALLY-SIGHTED CHILDREN.
A blind child is defined as one who has no sight, or whose sight
is or is likely to become so defective that it requires education
by methods not involving the use of sight. A partially-sighted
child is one who, by reason of defective vision, cannot follow the
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