ABSTRACT
School medical officers were to play the primary role in school health service ascertainment and certification process. The former principal school medical officers became senior specialists in community medicine and other specialists in community medicine included the senior clinical medical officers and clinical medical officers, who have responsibility for the ascertainment of children in need of special education. The process of ascertainment for special education involves a referring school, an educational psychologist, a medical officer, a receiving school and the local education authority administration. However, a variety of 'other personnel' can be involved with the child and his family during assessment. The other personnel involved with the study population children were as follows: the educational guidance centre, the assessment centre, the remedial teaching service, the psychiatrists, and social workers. In several families more than one 'other' was involved. One family had a series of social workers, and the staff at an assessment centre concerned about them and their children.
