§ Lord Balnielasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what steps are being taken to train more teachers of deaf and physically handicapped children.
§ Mr. HoggA new Chair of Child Development is being founded at the University of London Institute of Education with the assistance of a generous endowment from the Spastics Society. In addition to existing courses in child development and for teachers of the educationally sub-normal and maladjusted, the Institute will now establish new courses of training for teachers of the physically handicapped, with special reference to the needs of children with cerebral palsy—that is to say spastics, for whose care the Spastics Society was founded—and for teachers of the deaf and partially hearing, and will undertake associated research. It is hoped that the first students will be admitted in October, 1965. I welcome these developments, which will increase the supply of specially qualified teachers and will add to our knowledge of the problems and needs of handicapped children.