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This Includes lip reading and training in the use of individual hearing aids. Occasionally
some of these partially deaf pupils return to ordinary schools and are able to work with
other children, provided that they are placed in a favourable position in the classroom
and continue to use hearing aids.
Figures relating to work carried out in connection with deaf and partially deaf
children during the year are set out below:-
Number ascertained during the year:
Deaf 4
Partially deaf Nil
Disposal of ascertained cases:
Admitted to day special school (Deaf) 3
Awaiting admission to day special, school
(at present out of school) (deaf) 1
Number known to the Authority at the end of the year;
In residential special schools (deaf) 6
In day special schools (deaf) 22
In day special schools (partially deaf) 7
Out of school (deaf) (This case is
included in the disposal of
ascertained cases) 1
EDUCATIONALLY SOB-NORMAL 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. Children who possess limited intelligence and In
consequence become retarded may make little progress in ordinary schools.
The following figures relate to work carried out in connection with educationally
sub-normal children:-
Number ascertained during the year 16
Disposal of ascertained cases:
In ordinary schools 3
Recommended day special schools 10
Recommended residential special school 2
Removed from the district 1
Number of cases known to the Authority at the end of the year:
In ordinary schools 82
In day special schools 150
In residential special schools 13
Fresh admissions to special schools during the year:
In day special schools 30
In residential special school 1
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