[Report 1970] / School Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City.

  • Nottingham (England). City Council.
Date:
1970
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Credit: [Report 1970] / School Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HANDICAPPED PUPILS On the following pages figures for 1969 appear in brackets. Blind: Residential Special School .. .. 5 (4) Awaiting residential placement .. - (-) Home Education .. - (-) Four of these children have serious additional disabilities. Two are physically handicapped, one deaf and one epileptic. One of the blind children with a severe physical handicap is staying for an extra year at the Worcester Grammar School for Blind Boys. Partially Sighted: Residential Special School .. 5 (5) Awaiting residential placement 1* (1*) Ordinary School .. 21 (20) Day Special School .. 2 (2) * Included in day special school. Many of these children are able to manage in ordinary schools and four of them have additional disabilities. The reasons for their poor sight are varied, four of the children having albinism. Deaf: Residential Special School .. 2 (2) Day Special School ..35 (30) Awaiting Placement 1 (-) These figures represent a slight increase. Instances have been known where parents have moved into the City so that their deaf child can remain at home and go to school on a day basis. One child, not yet placed, who is both blind and deaf presents a great problem. It seems impossible to do anything for these deaf-blind children educationally at the present state of our knowledge. Communication by the tactile method as used by Helen Keller appears to be only for those who have had some language in infancy and then lost it because of an infection of the brain or its coverings. Some new technical advance is required before material help can be given. Many children with severe hearing loss benefit from the more power¬ ful commercial hearing aids and I am thankful that the Committee has supplied these when required. There is little doubt that for such children in school these aids are very valuable pieces of educational equipment. There are now five City school children with these proprietary brand aids in the Ewing School. Partially Hearing: Residential Special School 1 (2) Day Special School .. 12 (12) Ordinary School .. 84 (84) Miss Allen, the perepatetic teacher of the deaf at the Ewing School, continues to give help where required with our more seriously partially hearing children in ordinary schools. Regular sessions are held in the following schools:-