CHILD GUIDANCE CLINICS FAVOURED
(P.A.) WELLINGTON. June 23. Although no decisions were made on the problem, the Minister of Health, Mr J. T. Watts, considers the question of dealing with intellectually handicapped children can best be tackled by the setting up of child guidance clinics in the four main centres. Mr. Watts said yesterday that his opinion was based on advice he has received to date from his own department. Since taking office lie had been studying the whole question and had had several discussions on it with Mr. Algie. Each guidance clinic, said Mr. Watts, would consist of a team of workers trained in the fields of pyschiatry, educational psychology and social work and their function would be to see and give advice on children referred to them by school medical officers, teachers, parents and by private medical practitioners.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23288, 24 June 1950, Page 6
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