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PUPILS SUFFERING FROM SPEECH DEFECTS. These are pupils who. on account of stammering,
aphasia, or defect of voice or articulation not due to deafness, require special educational
treatment, The number of new cases ascertained during the year was 79, and 58
were considered as no longer belonging to this category. The number on the records at the
end of the year was 138, An account of the work of the Speech Clinic appears on pages 55 and
CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM DUAL OR MULTIPLE DEFECTS, Children handicapped by more than
one defect often present a serious problem in arranging suitable education, as there are
so few schools which specialise in the education of children with dual disabilities, There
is a real need for further provision, which can only be made on a national basis, as no
authority is likely to have more than two or three children with any particular combination
of disabilities® In the year 1948 the number of cases known to the Authority was 10,
The particulars are as follows:
1 boy, aged 14 years, and 1 girl aged 12 years, totally deaf and educationally
sub-normal, in Rayners School, Penn, Bucks.
1 girl, aged 15 years, partially deaf and partially sighted, In Rayners School,
Penn, Bucks.
1 boy, physically handicapped and educationally sub-normal, and 1 boy educationally
sub-normal and epileptic are in Grange Road Special School,
1 boy and 1 girl, educationally sub-normal and physically handicapped, and 1 girl,
educationally sub-normal and partially deaf, are In Khox Road Special School.
1 boy who is partially sighted and epileptic attends an ordinary school.
1 girl educationally sub-normal and epileptic in Knox Road Special School.
The first named subnormality is considered to be the leading defect, and determines
the educational needs.
Of these 10 children, 3 were fresh ascertainments during the year®
SPECIAL SCHOOLS
The special schools for which the Authority is responsible are shown hereunder?
Name of School Purpose for which used
Khox Road Educationally subnormal.
Grange Road Educationally sub-normal and
Physically Handicapped.
Tunmarsh Lane Deaf Deaf and Partially-Deaf.
Fyfield Residential 0pen-Air Delicate children.
School
GRANGE ROAD AND KNOX ROAD SPECIAL SCHOOLS
These two Schools are considered together because the separation of function which
is proposed under the Development Plan whereby Grange Road becomes a School solely for
physically defective children, and Khox Road caters entirely for educationally subnormal
children has not yet been fully implemented, and some educationally subnormal children
are still in attendance at the former. The combined capacity of the two schools is:
Educationally subnormal 200
Phvsicallv handicarvoed 80
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