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Educationist (orthodidactics).
School guidance teacher/Counselling psychologist.
Educational psychologist.
School social worker.
Nurse.
Medical specialists, paramedics and legal advisors will also be included on a part time
and consultative basis. It is important that professional personnel in particular who are
involved in the SEG on a full time basis should also play a part in the in-service
training of staff at the SEG as well as related personnel.
In the light of the above the following recommendations were made (Urbani 1981) :
RECOMMENDATION 16 : The training of educationists (orthodidaetics), who are
responsible for designing remedial programmes for children with learning problems
with a view to the remedial or class teachers at schools implementing those is an
urgent matter.
RECOMMENDATION 18 : Within the context of the SEG the task of the school
social worker should include family guidance, socialization of the child and dealing
with problems that may arise in the transition from mainstream education to special
education or vice versa.
(2) Registration with a statutory teacher's council
It is imperative that the existing professional personnel involved in the tasks of
evaluation and diagnosis of and providing assistance and guidance for impaired and
handicapped children and who have undergone predominantly educational training,