[Report 1972] / Medical Officer of Health, Dorset County Council.

  • Dorset (England). County Council.
Date:
1972
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Credit: [Report 1972] / Medical Officer of Health, Dorset County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following list classifies the children at residential schools or hostels at the end of 1972 in the categories specified in the Ministry’s Handicapped Pupils Regulations 1959, and gives the numbers attending at each school. BLIND Pupils who have no sight or whose sight is or is likely to become so defective that they require education by methods not involving the use of sight. Condover Hall Special School, Condover, Nr Shrewsbury, Salop. 1 Ysgol Penybont School, Bridgend, Glamorgan. 1 Dorten House School, Seal, Sevenoaks, Kent. 1 PARTIALLY SIGHTED Pupils who by reason of defective vision cannot follow the normal regime of ordinary schools without detriment to their sight or their educational development but can be educated by special methods involving the use of sight. The West of England School, Exeter. 6 DEAF Pupils who have no hearing or whose hearing is so defective that they require education by methods used for deaf pupils without naturally acquired speech or language. The Royal West of England School, Exeter. 2 Woodford School, South Woodford, London. 1 PARTIALLY HEARING Pupils with impaired hearing whose development of speech and language, even if retarded, is following a normal pattern, and who require for their education special arrangements or facilities, though not necessarily all the educational methods used for deaf pupils. The Royal West of England School, Exeter. 5 Mary Hare Grammar School, Newbury, Berks. 1 EPILEPTIC Pupils who by reason of epilepsy cannot be educated under the normal regime of ordinary schools without detriment to themselves or other pupils. Lingfield Hospital School, Lingfield, Surrey. 3