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Deaf Pupils
Number known to the Authority 25
Number ascertained during the year 0
In residential Special Schools at end of year 5
In Day Special Schools at end of year 20
Partially Deaf Pupils
Number known to the Authority 5
Number ascertained during the year 0
In Day Special School at end of year 5
The audiometric surveys have detected a number of children suffering from hearing
loss of a slighter degree, not requiring special educational treatment, in special schools.
They may require medical treatment, favourable position In class and, in some cases, the
provision of a hearing aid, but remain in ordinary schools.
The majority of deaf children in West Ham attend the West Ham School for the deaf.
Two deaf children were admitted to Residential Special Schools for the Deaf this
year because they were also maladjusted.
EDUCATIONALLY SUB-NORMAL PUPILS
Number known to the Authority at the end of the year:-
In ordinary schools 23
In Day Special Schools 141
In Residential Special Schools 10
174
Number ascertained during the year 22
Recommended placement
In ordinary school Nil
Day Special School 21
Residential Special School 1
22
Most of West Ham children who are ascertained as Educationally Sub-Normal attend
the Gurney Special School. Like other handicapped pupils they receive careful medical
supervision and many receive speech therapy. Their mental and emotional development Is
under constant review and is specially assessed towards the end of their school life.
The following recommendations were made in respect of the 22 pupils who left the school
in 1958.
15 were notified to the Local Authority as requiring
supervision after leaving school
5 left without special recommendation
2 left the district.
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