ABSTRACT
Spastic children who are also mentally handicapped become the responsibility of the mental welfare officer, who is employed by the local authority to help and advise both the mentally ill and the mentally subnormal who are living at home. School medical officers and school welfare officers may visit the homes of children who are attending ordinary or special schools, to advise on questions relating to education. Again, school medical officers or psychologists may call to make assessments of the child's educability and special educational needs. Twenty-five mothers said that they had found their family doctors helpful in specific ways. Seventy-five mothers said that they had found the family doctor helpful in a general sort of way although they could not think of any specific action he had taken. Forty-eight of the mentally handicapped and unclassified children had no day-care or had only voluntary day-care provision for one or two days per week.
