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During the past ten years, between 500 and 800 cases each year
have been interviewed, treated and followed up in llford and later in
Redbridge.
Experience has shown without any doubt, that self-confidence
gained through rapid and encouraging results is the biggest insurance
against relapse.
This early improvement, however, can only be achieved and maintained
if there is complete understanding by both parent and child of
what is being attempted - namely the breaking of a bad habit, however
long established it may have been.
Bed-wetting cannot be regarded as a single entity - it is a symptom
of the "Enuretic Syndrome".
Effective treatment must be directed primarily at the cause
supportive therapy will then more rapidly eliminate this distressing and
frustrating symptom.
Peripatetic
Teachers for
the Partially
Hearing
The Peripatetic Teacher for the Partially Hearing, Miss H. C. Hodges,
submits the following report in conjunction with Mrs. J. Carney:-
As usual the work of the peripatetic teachers has concerned
partially hearing pre-school children and those of school age who do not
require special educational treatment in schools for the deaf.
We have undertaken the supervision of the use of hearing aids,
auditory training, the teaching of speech, language and general subjects,
parent guidance, and thetesting of hearing.
At present there are 37 children on our register. Of these 4 are of
pre-school age. 12 are in primary schools, 18 in secondary schools and
3 in special schools. During the year I have made 621 visits to these
children, their parents and teachers, in homes, day nurseries and schools.
Since September, when Miss Hodges was seconded to attend a one year
University Course, I have been working unaided in two boroughs, and I
have had to reduce auditory training for each pre-school age child to
one session a week.
In the past year 9 children from our register have been recommended
for special educational treatment, 3 children were admitted to the Unit
for Partially Hearing Infants in Barking last April and have made good