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No. of Sessions New Cases Old Cases Total Attendances Audiograms Advised Operation
40 163 95 469 75 88
In addition 51 children were referred to the Ear, Nose and Throat
Clinic at Wanstead Hospital and seen by Mr. R.T.S. Goodchild, F.R.C.S.
Of these 15 were found to require operative treatment.
Speech
Clinics
The following Speech Therapists were employed at the end of
1968:-
Miss Cox Full-time. School Clinics and Woodford Bridge E.S.N. Unit.
Miss Littlewood Full-time. School Clinics. Becontree Schools and Junior Training School.
Miss Osborne Full-time. School Clinics and Observation Unit.
Mrs. Pretious Full-time. Valentines Clinic and Ethel Davis Physically Handicapped School.
Mrs. Tingey 6 sessions. Mayesbrook Clinic and St. Vincent's School.
Mrs. Pretious reports on their work as follows:-
"In September 1968 we welcomed Miss Cox and Miss Littlewood to
full-time posts to replace Miss Barrett and Mrs. Pearce, who had resigned
earlier in the year.
As Mrs. Pearce had been employed for three sessions only, this increased
the establishment by seven sessions, which was most helpful.
It was possible to increase to four sessions the Junior Training School
and to five sessions the Observation Unit.
We are pleased to receive so many referrals of pre-school children.
From the age of 2½ years onward, parental guidance as to the best ways
to stimulate the child's speech development is given by the therapist,
and opportunity provided for the mother to observe her working with the
child. It is widely said that conversation is a dying art and we find that
some young children lack opportunities to converse with adults who
know how to speak in a simple interesting manner. This type of "nursery
conversation" is the basis of future linguistic abilities. We take this
opportunity of thanking everybody for their helpful co-operation in the
past year."