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pronounced and associated with poor vision, a partially sighted school is
recommended. I am indebted to the orthoptist for her invaluable help in treating
the above-mentioned cases of squint and also those who present symptoms due to
anomalies of oculo-motor balance and who have not acquired full binocular
vision".
Child Guidance Service
Dr. C. Phillips, M.R.C.S., D.P.M., visiting psychiatrist, reports:-
"The year under review has seen the work of the Child Guidance Centres at
Hornsey and Tottenham continuing in much the same way as has been described
in previous reports.
We have been fortunate in filling the somewhat longstanding vacancy for a
part-time psychotherapist for the Tottenham Child Guidance Clinic, and this has
greatly increased our facilities for treatment, since the time of her appointment in
April 1958.
Work with the treatment and investigation of behaviour disorders in children
under five is going on, and health visitors have been encouraged to bring cases for
consultation and treatment. A scheme is in progress whereby each health visitor
in turn is present at the diagnostic interview and the subsequent treatment interview(s).
By this means it is hoped to give them an insight into simple methods
that can be used to deal with emotional disturbances in young children at the
beginning before they have become difficult and complicated. It is hoped, too,
that this will make a significant contribution to the prevention of illness in school
children and consequently dimini sh the amount of instability in adults whose
mothers have had the benefit of sound advice and help during the formative years".
Speech Therapy
Miss Came, Senior Speech Therapist, reports as follows:-
'"Once again, many schools were visited in 1958. Their support and cooperation
have been invaluable,
Teachers show increasing awareness of the crippling effects of a speech
handicap on emotional growth and/or educational progress. Infant school head
teachers commonly consult the speech therapist about children with such
difficulties. The head master and staff of Tottenham Grammar School have shown
equal concern that every stammerer should receive treatment.
In Hornsey, the speech therapist reports a less satisfactory position,
possibly arising through staff changes in the past. She mentions that some
children have not reached her until long past the optimum age for treatment. The
dangerously unscientific statement "he'll grow out of it", may also account for
some delayed referrals. A future survey of Hornsey children needing speech
therapy is suggested."