[Report 1947] / School Medical Officer of Health, Lanark County Council.

  • Lanarkshire (Scotland). County Council
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / School Medical Officer of Health, Lanark County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be much more commodious than Woodburn and will be able to cater for the needs of approximately 500 children. The School for the Deaf, which at present is situated at Townhead School, Hamilton, will be transferred to the new school at Auchinraith and will become a part of that establishment. Children are conveyed to the special schools by motor ’buses and, in the near future, the Education Authority will have a special fleet of new ’buses to operate this service. WTiile the populous areas of the County are served by the special schools, the rural districts are not so advan¬ tageously placed and, when the present abnormal times end, consideration of provision of special education for handicapped children in those areas will require to be faced, probably by the provision of residential schools or special classes in ordinary schools at convenient centres. Deaf-mute and educationally deaf children are educated at the School for the Deaf, Hamilton, as day pupils. Children outwith the range of this school are educated as residential pupils at the Royal Deaf and Dumb Institution, Edinburgh, St. Vincent’s School for the Deaf, Tollcross, or Langside Deaf and Dumb Institution, Glasgow. By mutual arrangement, St. Vincent’s School for the Deaf at Tollcross is now administered by Glasgow Education Authority instead of as formerly partly by Glasgow and partly by Lanarkshire. Blind and educationally blind children arc educated at the Royal School for the Blind, Edinburgh, or, in the case of Roman Catholic children, at St. Vincent’s School for the Blind, Tollcross, Glasgow. Severely crippled children and those suffering from chronic disabilities, or who need convalescent treatment, are admitted to East Park Homes for Infirm Children at Glasgow and Largs. Epileptic children, who are not mentally defective but capable of being educated, are accommodated at the Colony of Mercy, Bridge of Weir. This Colony for Epileptics is for Protestant children. There is no similar colony for the education of Roman Catholic children. Less is being done for the epileptic than for any other class of handicapped child and much more provision for housing and training these unfortunate individuals requires to be made. There are special classes in each of the special schools for the education of children suffering from high degrees of Myopia. They are admitted on the advice of the School Ophthalmic Surgeons
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