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testing successively vision and hearing as parts of one
operation.
The eventual aim, which it is hoped to achieve in the next
four year's, is to test vision annually and hearing (our times
during school life, i.e. at 5, 8, 11 and 14 years."
Peripatetic With the ever increasing emphasis on the earliest possible
Teacher of the diagnosis of deafness and the need for prompt attention to
Deaf special educational treatment the Borough is fortunate in
having it's own Peripatetic Teacher and 1 am, therefore,
pleased to append her first report.
Miss H. C. Hodges, Peripatetic Teacher of the Deaf, submits
the following report:—
"I have 35 partially-hearing children on my visiting list, 4
pre-school, 8 in primary schools, 18 in secondary schools and
3 in a special school, and 2 in fee-paying schools.
During the year I made 423 visits. One 3 year old has been
admitted to the West Ham School for the Deaf and another was
admitted to the William Morris School for the Deaf. One boy in
a special school has left and two senior boys have gone on to
Grammar and Technical education in other boroughs. I have one
severely partially-deaf child in a primary school waiting to be
admitted to a special school for the deaf, and a pre-school
child who may need special educational treatment in the near
future.
These children have been notified by the school medical
officer, heads of schools and speech therapists. But should
any children be issued with hearing aids through the Borough
Health Clinics, they, too, should be receiving any help they
need through the peripatetic service for partially-deaf children.
Now that Redbridge has its own peripatetic teacher of the
partially deaf it is hoped that a close liaison between the
education and medical departments regarding deaf children will
soon be established."
Handicapped Section 33 of the Education Act 1944 and the regulations
Children made thereunder, have placed on Local Education Authorities
responsibilities for the provision of suitable education of
children suffering from disability of mind or body.
A record of all such children is revised annually from
returns submitted by all Head Teachers and any new cases
attending maintained schools are reported to me with a view to