Disturbed Children
Sir, —Few class teachers will disagree with Varian J. Wilson’s statement that “disturbed children can stay on a waiting list until they are beyond help, passing in the meantime from the field of psychiatry into the bands of the police.” We have seen this happen too often. The futile process of removing children from schools to test them in clinics, where their usual behaviour is not able to be observed, and then sending them back unchanged has gone on too long. Although the Canterbury Education Board has made a start at caring for some of the estimated 5 per cent of seriously disturbed children, a new type of institution is needed where, eared for by teacher-psychia-trists, these hundreds of pupils could attend continuously for education and treatment until fit to re-enter ordinary schools. The Education and Health Departments must face up to this task.— Yours, etc., J. F. WILLIAMS. June 13, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31085, 14 June 1966, Page 16
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