National Association for Mental Health Training Courses Courses for Teachers
Forthcoming Activities
On behalf of the Ministry of Education, two Courses are being organized by the National Association for teachers interested in educationally subnormal children, both in special schools and classes and in ordinary schools. Diagnostic and Remedial Work, affecting many aspects of the curriculum, will be studied. These are residential courses and will be held at Royal Holloway College, Englefield Green, Surrey, from July 5th to 23rd, and at Grove House, Roehampton, from September 6th to 25th, 1948. Teachers who wish to attend should apply to their own Local Authorities for the necessary form.
From April 6th to 13th, 1948, a short Course will be held at 39 Queen Anne Street, W.l, for staffs of preparatory schools on Educational Backwardness. This is not a residential course, but some residential accommodation has been obtained at one of the University Hostels in Bloomsbury. The Course fee is ?4 4s. Further details will be supplied on application to the Secretary, Education Department, N.A.M.H., 39 Queen Anne Street, W.l.
For Medical Officers The usual Courses on Educational Subnormal Children and Mental Defectives are being organized by the National Association in conjunction with the ExtraMural Department of London University. Three will be held at the Examination Halls of the University, South Kensington, on the following dates: March 1st to 19th, April 26th to May 14th, and September 27th to October 15th, 1948.
For Officers of Local Authorities An experimental Course for Local Authority Officers taking up new duties under the National Health Service Act, 1946, is being held in conjunction with the ExtraMural Department of Manchester University. This Course is full time and lasts two months.
Other Courses are being planned by the Association, and it is hoped to hold one in London, beginning immediately after Easter, on lines similar to those for the Manchester Course. The fee is ?15 15s. For Supervisors of Occupation Centres and Staffs oj Children’s Departments of Institutions The usual year’s Course will begin early in September, and it is hoped that applications will be made as soon as possible. Those who have the necessary qualifications, including experience with children, but have not had definite experience with defectives, could probably be found temporary work in this field during the next few months as this is a very valuable and almost essential preliminary to the Course. The fee for the Course is ?25 and certain Bursaries are awarded.
The Association hopes to run a short Refresher Course of a week to ten days in the summer term. It has, however, not as yet proved possible to obtain residential accommodation. If this is not forthcoming, a non-residential Course will be held in London providing sufficient applications are received. It would be helpful, therefore, if all those interested would communicate with the Association as soon as possible.
Conference on Speech Therapy
The College of Speech Therapists is holding a Conference on Speech Therapy in London at the Royal Society of Medicine from September 20th to 24th, 1948. The subjects to be discussed will include the aim and scope of Speech Therapy, the emotional background of stammering, speech disorders arising from head injuries, the Speech Clinic and the Speech Defective child, and the role of emotional problems in producing disorders of speech. There will also be general sessions during which members of the Conference will present papers on various aspects of Speech Therapy? and closely related subjects. j
It is stated that one of the chief objects of this Conference is the re-establishment of international contact between Speech Therapists, and it is hoped that an International Federation of Speech Therapists will be re-formed on a widely representative basis.
The Conference fee is ?2 10s., which includes admission to all sessions, participation in certain social functions which have been arranged, and a copy of the Conference Report when published. Further particulars may be obtained from the Conference Secretary, College of Speech Therapists, 68 Queen’s Gardens, W.2.
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