ABSTRACT
The importance of mental testing as a major aspect of the work of educational psychologists has tended to overshadow other aspects of their work, and from the 1960s educational psychologists were at pains to point out that they were not simply 'IQ bashers' but that their work has other aspects. G. W. Herbert argues that regarding educational psychologists as well-qualified teachers may lead the teaching profession as a whole to regard them as 'super-teachers or confidence tricksters'. Psychologists are ideally working within a 'scientific' model providing an objective assessment of the special needs of a child on which a decision can be made about special schooling. The professional skills of the psychologist appeared to be used in a variety of ways. The procedures were that incoming cases were allocated, after consultation, to one or more of the personnel operating from the clinic, for example: to the psychiatrist, social worker, remedial teacher.
