Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Vocational Guidance Clinic ...assistance in iob adjustment The Educational and Vocational Guidance Clinic is a special bureau set up for the use of non-Uni- versity persons. Selected cases are handled by the clinic, which operates on an intensive testing basis. Twenty to twenty-five hours are required to complete the vocational tests. The fee for the entire battery is $45. Handicapped persons are referred by social agencies as well as out-of-town personnel officers Who have heard of the clinic. But the clinids director, Dr. Roy B. Hackman, professor of psychology, emphasizes that the clinic is not a mass production enterprise. Almost 80 per cent of the applicants are aided in hnding new helds of vocation. The clinic does not, however, find jobs for the applicants. Speech Clinic Familiar Form A gives psychologist key to a client. ...individual theraphy for adults an children Student therapist helps boy by using memory trainer. 24 The Speech and Hearing Center provides serv- ices for those suffering from speech impediments. Professionally trained therapists and student. ther- apists under supervision of the Center staff ad- minister individual therapy. Children born with a cleft palate or crippled with cerebral palsy are learning how to talk as other people do. There are about 15,000 school children in Philadelphia Who need therapy. Adults are also treated for numerous difficulties including stuttering, for- eign accents, aphasia and laryngectomy. On con- clusion of every diagnostic examination, sum- maries of evaluations are sent to referrants and parents upon request.

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Dental Clinic .. .5000 receive ca re The Dental Clinic is under the auspices of the Temple University School of Dentistry and makes treatment available to patients in all areas of dentistry. The Clinic serves many patients daily in a mutually beneliting experience. The patients receive expert care and the future dentists get valued experience, all under the capable super- vision of trained instructors. A small fee is paid by each patient because of insufhcient appropria- tion to the Clinic. Last year the number of pa- tients reached 5,000. Many schools and childrenls homes take advant- age of the great variety of services by sending younger patients for instruction in Oral Hygiene and tooth care in addition to dental treatment. Extraction of wisdom tooth demands steadiness Experienced dentist helps students in their practical work at the clinic by illustrating the problem with plastic gums. of hand. 23

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II Mwh . v11 HMH M At the Oak Lane Laboratory School problem readers receive remedial instructions. Reading Clinic The Reading Clinic seeks to correct inadequate reading by diagnosing the nature and severity of its patientsh problems and also by offering help to improve the applicants skill in reading. Various programs of remedial teaching are provided. The Laboratory School provides adaptive, highly spe- cialized full-time schooling. Some remedial serv- ices offered include the Adult Reading Service, Speed Reading, and Corrective Reading classes. Mrs. Bricklin helps in diagnosis of the young applicant. ...improving agency for an essential skill Students in remedial reading class.