[Report 1948] / School Medical Officer of Health, Manchester.
- Manchester (England). Council.
- Date:
- 1948
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1948] / School Medical Officer of Health, Manchester. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Offices. These examinations are conducted by two Assistant School Medical Officers during two sessions a week, and a brief report on their work follows :— Number of children tested by “ pure tone ” audiometer . . 343 Number of children retested after 6—12 months .. .. 110 Number of children discharged after re-examination . . 50 Number of children admitted to Special Residential School for the Deaf . . . . . . . . . . .. 7 Number of children referred for lip-reading classes . . 3 Number of children referred to Speech Clinic . . .. 6 Number of children referred to School Clinic for treatment 21 Number of children referred for mental testing . . .. 6 Number of children examined by the oto-laryngologist .. 77 Attendances at the Audiometer Clinic have been remarkably good After making allowances for removals from the Manchester area, and for sickness, 90 per cent, of the cases notified kept their appointment. A very considerable number of the cases seen were found to be suffering from only minor degrees of deafness. S. F. REYNOLDS. C. R. CRYSTAL. SPEECH THERAPY Treatment of children with speech defects continued to be restricted by a shortage of trained personnel. In consequence, there is a largi waiting list, and many cases may have to wait a long time before the can even attend an initial interview. An Assistant Speech Therapis' was, however, appointed, but will not be able to commence duty unti, the beginning of next year. Improvement in the position was effected in September when a teacher of speech training was appointed to th Committee’s teaching staff. She was able to deal with many childre: with speech difficulties who were referred to the clinic, but who did not require the services of a therapist—she works on somewhat differen lines. Dr. Crystal, who has undertaken the medical supervision o children attending the Speech Clinic, has written a short statement, an<] following that is the report by the Senior Speech Therapist. Children with Speech Defects During the year I have visited the Speech Clinic, and have medicall examined all cases before treatment and again after the completion of course in Speech Therapy. In some cases, especially stammerers, a spell in an Open Air Schoci or Convalescent Home was advised and seemed to be beneficial, a| home conditions appear sometimes to aggravate, if not altogether caus| the complaint. During the year. Miss Ashworth has started Speech Therapy among: the cerebral palsies at the Lancasterian Day P.D. School, which I visl weekly, and in many cases the improvement in speech has been markec| but progress is slow as the time given must of necessity be short, a: this cannot be overcome until the Speech Therapy staff is comple] and more time can be given to this interesting and valuable work— we look hopefully to the future for progress. C. R. CRYSTAL](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29927845_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
