[Report 1949] / School Health Service, Radnorshire County Council.

  • Radnorshire (Wales). County Council. School Health Service.
Date:
1949
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Credit: [Report 1949] / School Health Service, Radnorshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The most difficult groups to deal with are perhaps the maladjusted and the educationally sub-normal. (1) Maladjusted pupils show evidence of emotional instability or psychological disturbance and require special educational treatment in order to effect their personal, social, or educational readjustment. Special educational treatment in such cases should be given in such manner as may be considered approp- riate in the light of a recommendation by a Child Psychiatrist, an Educational Psychologist or other suitably qualified person by a Child Guidance Centre or Clinic. The best treatment may be to admit such a child to a special residential school for maladjusted pupils. Unfortunately, owing to the small population of this area, it is not possible to set up such a residential special school or Child Guidance Centre or Clinic. (2) Educationally Sub-Normal pupils are those who, by reason of limited ability or other conditions resulting in educational retardation require some special form of education wholly or partly in substitution for the education normally given in ordinary schools. The common causes of educational retardation (other than limited ability) are as follows :— 1. Late entry to school and subsequent irregular attendance caused by truancy or ill health, by over-indulgence or irresponsibility on the part of parents or especially with tlie older girls, by undue pressure of home duties. 2. Frequent changes of school due to changes of address. 3. Disharmony between school and home. 4. The keeping of late hours by children. 5. Psychological maladjustment which may absorb so much of a child’s mental energy that he/she becomes unsuccessful in school.