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BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC
CHILDREN.
(a) Review of the methods adopted for ascertaining and, dealing with
children who are defective within the meaning of Part V of the Education
Act, 1921, and of the adequacy of such methods.
Children suffering from defects under this heading are promptly
brought to the notice of the department by parents, attendance officers,
health visitors and school nurses, by the medical officers at school
inspections, by other Authorities where there has been a change of
address, and from hospitals and institutions.
With such means of information available to the Authority it
would be difficult for any child to escape detection for any length of
time.
Defective children who are supposed to come within Part V are
referred, in the case of visual and hearing defects, to the Committee's
Eye Specialist and Aurist respectively, who advise as to the institution
to which each child should be sent.
18 children with visual defects have been accommodated at :—
Lordship Lane Day School for Partially Blind 15 children
East London School for the Blind 2 „
White Oak Hospital School, Swanley, Kent 1 child
There are 20 deaf or partially deaf children at:—
Tottenham School for the Deaf 18 children
L.C.C. Deaf School, Anerley 1 child
East Anglian Deaf School, Yarmouth 1 „
Physically Defective Children attend the Vale Road Physically
Defective Centre and at the end of the year 77 children were in attendance.
Accommodation for children requiring residential treatment has
been provided as follows:—
Heart Hospital School, Lancing 5 children
St. John's Institution, Woodford 2 „
Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate 2 „