[Report 1954] / School Medical Officer of Health, Glamorgan County Council.
- Glamorgan (Wales). County Council. nb2014013905.
- Date:
- 1954
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1954] / School Medical Officer of Health, Glamorgan County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(c) Maladjusted Pupils. (Maladjusted pupils, that is to say, pupils who show evidence of emotional instability or psychological disturbar and require special educational treatment in order to effect their personal, social, or educational readjustment.) Increasing nse is being made of the Child Psychiatric Clinics of the Regional Hospital Boai Children were seen at the Cardiff Ro3^al Infirmary by Dr. Spillane, at Church Village Hospital by Doctc Linford Rees and T. S. Davies, in Mid-Glamorgan by Dr. C. J. Morgan, and during the year additior facilities were made available in the west of the County, where children were seen by Dr. G. Crosse. The now exists a good liaison between the hospital services and the school health service in relation to the tree ment of maladjusted children. In the exceptional cases wlrich do not respond to out-patient treatment admission to “The Linden Hostel for Maladjusted Children is arranged. In order to assess the value of hostel treatment a follow-' suiA^ey of cliildren who have been at “The Lindens” was carried out. Cliildren who had been discharg for a period of at least six months were included in the survey. Of the 67 children fulfilling this requireme since 1949, 66 were traced. In the analysis of the results one boy was excluded because he was diagnos as suiiering from Schizophrenia and was transferred to a mental hospital. The findings of the survej^ we as follows :— No improvement Some improvement Good result Boys (48) 18 (38%) 16 (33%) 14 (29%) Girls (17) 4 (24%) 9 (53%) 4 (24%) Total (65) 22 (34%) 25 (39%) 18 (28%) When it is remembered that all these children were severely maladjusted on admission, the resu cannot be regarded as disappointing. A more detailed analysis of the findings revealed that of the 29 childr' who were on admission living with their natural parents, 13 (45 per cent) gave a good result, but of the who were in the care of the Local Authority prior to admission only one (6 per cent) was recorded as a goi result. This emphasises the importance of the home background. Other features which carried a po prognosis were found to be a history of mental illness in a parent and presenting symptoms combinii pilfering and truanting. {d) Deaf and Partially Deaf Children. (Deaf pupils, that is to say, pupils who have no hearing or whose hearing is so defective that they require educati by methods used for deaf pupils without naturally acquired speech or language.) (Partially deaf pupils, that is to say, pupils who have some naturally acquired speech and language but whose heari IS so defective that they require for their education special arrangements or facilities though not necessarily all the educatioi methods used for deaf pupils.) Selection of children who should be educated at special residential schools for deaf children is a matt ior serious consideration, and there can be no doubt that if the degree of deafness is not handicapping t educational progress of the child, then it is better for him to remain in the ordinary school. Provision liearing aids to childreji frequently enables them to remain in their own schools with children who ha normal hearing. It is (fi ]jaramount im])ortance that the child with defective hearing should retain whatever speech. Ijossesses and if he has no speech then it is essential that he should be trained to speak. To teach a total deaf child to speak is a difficult matter and requires a long and patient effort by the teacher, the cliild, ai all who rom<- in contact with the child. Experience is showing that such training to be .successful nir](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28844853_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
