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PARTIALLY SIGHTED
Number known to the Authority 50
Number ascertained during the year 3
Disposal of ascertained cases:
Admitted to Day Special School 1
Admitted to Residential Special School 1
Out of School (awaiting admission to
Residention Special School) 1
Position at the end of the year:
In day special schools 12
In residential special schools 5
In ordinary schools 32
Out of school 1
DEAF AND PARTIALLY DEAF CHILDREN. A deaf child is defined as one who has
no hearing or whose hearing is so defective that it requires education by methods
used for deaf children without naturally acquired speech or language. A partially
deaf child is one whose hearing is so defective that it requires for its education
special arrangements or facilities but not all the educational methods used for deaf
children. The following figures relate to work carried out in connection with
deaf and partially deaf children during the year. The number of ascertainments
returned correspond more nearly to the figures of previous years, suggesting that the
steep increase observed in 1947 was due to the overtaking of arrears following the
opening of the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic.
Number ascertained during the year:
deaf 2
partially deaf 8
Disposal of ascertained cases:
Admitted to Day Special School(deaf) 2
Admitted to Day Special School
(partially deaf) 2
In ordinary schools (partially deaf) 6
Number known to the Authority at the end of the year:
In residential special schools (deaf) 2
In day special schools (deaf) 21
In day special schools (partially deaf) 7
In ordinary schools (partially deaf) 27
EDUCATIONALLY SUBNORMAL CHILDREN. These children are defined as pupils who,
by reason of limited ability or other conditions resulting in educational retardation,
require some specialised form of education, wholly or partly, in substitution for the
education normally given in ordinary schools. The following figures relate to work
carried out in connection with educationally subnormal children:-
Number ascertained during the year 73
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