[Report 1955] / School Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough.

  • Smethwick (Worcestershire, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1955
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Credit: [Report 1955] / School Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HANDICAPPED PUPILS. Handicapped pupils are sent to Special Schools where a report from the Principal School Medical Officer to the Chief Education Officer states that such action is desirable. The examinations carried out during the year 1955 resulted in recommendations being submitted as follows :— Blind—Residential School for Blind Partially sighted—Special School Deaf—Special School Partially Deaf—Special School . . Delicate—Firs Open Air School “ The Hollies ” Roys Ciirls Total 1 — 1 1 — 1 1 — 1 22 18 40 19 9 28 Physically Nandicapped Residentm] School Ordinary School Educationally Subnormal— Transfer from special to ordinary school . . 1 Ordinary School with Special Education . . 16 Special School (Day) . . . . . . 16 Special School (Boarding) . . . . . . 4 Ineducable -Mental Deficiency Acts Report Section 57(3) . . . . . . . . 3 Excluded Special School . . . . . . 3 3 4 3 19 8 24 4 4 7 1 4 Maladjusted— Ordinary School with Special Education . . 1 Child Guidance Clinic . . . . . . 2 Residential School . . . . . . . . 1 Firs Open Air School . . . . . . — Remedial Education Centre . . .. 3 1 1 2 2 1 1 3 Speech Defect—Speech Centre