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Learning for Living (1991 Video)

Subject

Education

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 34 min.

Looks athe educational practices of Percy Hedley School in its work with children with cerebral palsy. Their methods of ‘integrated education’ have been developed from the innovatory work of the Peto...

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Peto Institute opens in London (1992)

Genre

Interview; Music

Emma Howard interviews Spastics Society director of operations, Robert Hancock and chairman of the Stars Organisation for Spastics (SOS), Bob Monkhouse about the opening of Britain’s first Peto Institute...

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Challenge of Conductive Education, The (1990 Video)

Subject

Education; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

An introduction to conductive education, the system of physical training developed by the Peto Institute in Budapest for children with cerebral palsy. Shows the work of the Birmingham Institute in the UK and...

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Skillbank: Caring for People - Feeding (1991 Video)

Subject

FE; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 19 min., 1997 sale: £45.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows the basic principles for feeding people who cannot feed themselves and for assisting those who need help. Gives two examples of how to feed people with cerebral palsy. Emphasises throughout the...

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Speaking for Ourselves (2007)

Subject

History; Social Studies; Social welfare

An oral history project consisting of 230 hours of audio and video recordings of people aged over 50 with cerebral palsy talking about their lives. The project was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund which...

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Stand Up the Real Glynn Vernon (1996 Video)

Director

Yvette Vanson

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Free loan Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 15 min.

The personal story of Glynn Vernon, who has severe cerebral palsy, is a quadraplegic and has great difficulty in talking, but whose real problems come from the able-bodied. The programme aims to challenge...

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Goodbye Cp (2007)

aka: Sayonara Cp

Director

Kazuo Hara

Subject

Social Studies; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 82 minutes), $29.95

Maverick documentary filmmaker Kazuo Hara once again criticizes the mores and customs of Japanese society in this unsentimental portrait of adults with cerebral palsy. Focusing on how the CP victims are...

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Teaming with Success: The Bobath Interdisciplinary Approach (1995 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (inc VAT +p&p) 1999 sale: £49.95 (inc VAT +p&p)

Shows children with cerebral palsy and their parents working together with therapists of different disciplines, using the approach to treatment developed by Dr Karel and Mrs Berta Bobath, which aims to...

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Can anyone understand?

Date released

Oct 1976

Series name

Review 30th Year

Issue no

2

NoS ID

346852

Story no

1 / 1

NCB synopsis: There are approximately 100,000 sufferers from Cerebral Palsy in Britain. They are usually called spastics. This film is about some of them.

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Mike Lew (2022 Audio)

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Podcast. An interview with Mike Lew about his play Teenage Dick, which re-imagines Shakespeare’s Richard III as a student with cerebral palsy at an American high school. Lew says, ‘We set out to...

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