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The Handicapped Child
In this Area we are fortunate in having long-established provision for
the special educational treatment of the handicapped child.
Tottenham Day Special School for the Deaf
The school, which accommodates 100 children, covers an age range from
three to sixteen years and admits children from a wide area of Middlesex, who
in most instances travel to and from the school by transport provided by the
Local Education Authority. The nursery class was fully occupied during the
year and stresses the importance of commencing education for this class of
handicapped child as early as possible. Parental co operation in speech
training especially in very young children is essential, and it is hoped in
the near future to see established in this Area an Audiology Unit concerned
with the early diagnosis and training of children under two years of age in
co-operation with their parents.
The importance of separating the partially deaf from the totally deaf at
this special school has again received consideration; and it is anticipated
in the new year that all partially deaf children needing special educational
provision will be accommodated in a special class for the deaf at the Devonshire
Hill School, Tottenham.