[Report 1965] / School Medical Officer of Health, Reading County Borough.

  • Reading (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1965
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Credit: [Report 1965] / School Medical Officer of Health, Reading County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    School Leavers All leavers from previous years are still working well in their original jobs. Two girls have recently been promoted in their respective firms. Of the children who have left during the year, one has entered the British Railways Drawing Office, one is a clerk in a printer’s warehouse, and a third is con¬ tinuing her education at the Maurice School of Hairdressing. Future Plans For some time we have been concerned that because of pressure on the Nursery Infant Unit and its necessary use as a diagnostic unit, we have not been able to give pre-school children the special help they require. Next year we hope to create a separate fully equipped Nursery Unit with teacher and nursery assistant. As the Units have proved their success with Partially Hearing children, we have accepted those who are profoundly deaf. Next year, two of these will require full time education at Secondary level. We are hoping to expand the Cintra Unit, which has been working to date on a tutorial basis, in order to give full time special education to those children who require it. The Ear, Nose and Throat Department of the Royal Berkshire Hospital have requested the services of a qualified teacher of the deaf. This will enable the Hospital to give instruction in the use of hearing aids issued to deafened adults, in lip-reading and in auditory rehabilitation. It is hoped to make an appointment jointly by Reading Education Committee and Reading and District Hospital Management Committee in 1966. Children in Special Schools Two children remain at residential schools, one is at Woodford School in Essex and the other is at Nutfield Priory. A third child is on the waiting list for a place at a residential school. Educationally Subnormal Pupils “Pupils who, by reason of limited ability or other conditions resulting in educational retardation, require some specialised form of education wholly or partly in substitution for the education normally given in ordinary schools’’. One hundred and seventy-five pupils were classified as educationally subnormal at the end of the year. 111 boys and 39 girls attended the day special school, and 3 boys and 1 girl were being educated at residential E.S.N. schools. The waiting list for admission to the day special school showed an increase over last year. At the end of 1965 there were 11 boys and 9 girls on the waiting list for the Avenue School as opposed to a total of 11 children at the end of 1964. One boy was awaiting admis¬ sion to Residential School. The increase noted in 1964 in the number of pupils who were ascertained as requiring special educational treatment was not sustained. Nevertheless, the total number of children who were recommended for special schooling showed an increase over earlier years. The ascertainment consists of a full assessment including full medical examination, psychometric tests and a comprehensive investigation of the social background. The following table lists the recommendations made:—
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