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In 1925 I left the school to take up other work for the deaf
but I still think of what Tottenham taught me.-
To educate the deaf what is it ? To give to the deaf, who
are deprived of the only natural means of learning it, the power
to understand and use that huge complicated system of symbols
(spoken and written) we term language, in which the mind of Man
lives and moves and has its being.
Surely there cannot be any job in the world more intellectually
and spiritually rewarding than the Education of the Deaf",
Vale Road School for Physically Handicapped Children
Cerebral Palsy Unit
I am indebted to Dr. William Dunham forthe following report-
"Twenty seven of the 94 children now at this Special School
have cerebral palsy and parents of al± but four of these are now
participating in a programme of comprehensive management in which
parents teachers and medical staff collaborate to provide for the
child the help he needs in attaining to the best of his ability
normal activity. Parents attend from time to time for advice at
the school and, where necessary the therapist visits the parents
in their homes during the holidays.
Only two of the children have left school during the year,
both being transferred to another school ind their places taken by
other children with cerebral palsy,
My work as Consultant has included giving advice on 11 children
with cerebral palsy other than those attending the school including
two who attend Occupation Centres, It is hoped that in the future
moreof the babies and children of pre school age who have cerebral
palsy will be referred so that, through early treatment they may
be given the best chance of winning for themselves a place in
normal society ,
The Vale Road Day Special School continues to provide mainly
for other forms of physical handicap references to the type of
cases and change in pattern being referred to on page 112. The
demand for ancillary medical workers at the school has increased
and during the autumn term two physiotherapists were engaged to
devote seven sessions in all to children other than those suffering
from cerebral palsy, the work of the physiotherapists being under
the general direction of Mr, E, Hambly, F.R.C.S of the Prince of
Wales' s General Hospital and of Mr. E.T Bailey, F.R.C.S. at