It will be interesting to see the outcome of this proposed co-operation and sharing and I will post any further information I find.
Month: March 2011
What choice would you make?
A mother, whose son has cerebral palsy, writes in the Guardian movingly
‘Nathan was born at 23 weeks. If I’d known then what I do now, I’d have wanted him to die in my arms’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/20/nathan-born-premature-life-death
Her son was premature and had to spend some time in an incubator and now as well as being profoundly deaf ( a side effect of the drugs he has been given)
“He can’t walk or talk. He’s oxygen dependent, although hopefully that might change. He has chronic lung disease, cerebral palsy and global developmental delay. He has diabetes inspidus and his thermostat is a bit wonky so he gets hot and cold.”
His life expectancy is short, not much more than his teens. A heartbreaking situation for any parent and she asks whether all premature babies should be saved.
A question I would not like to answer, and a decision I would not like to make.
Update re the Virtual Catalogue and Repository
News that NICE conductor-training with Wolverhampton is ending
The five pillars and all that – what did Ester Cotton say?
The article on her visit to Peto and his institute can be found on my blog at
http://www.gillian-maguire.info/2009/01/conductive-education-material-profile.html
Cerebral palsy numbers declining?
Because cerebral palsy is a result of brain injury received shortly before, during, or soon after birth, the number of infants being diagnosed with the condition is a good indicator of the quality of perinatal and neonatal care. An article soon to be published in The Journal of Pediatrics indicates that the rates of cerebral palsy have declined dramatically in the past 15 years.
For more information go to
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20110303/Rates-of-cerebral-palsy-decline-among-children-born-prematurely.aspx
http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2011/03/04/cerebral-palsy-decline/12494/
British government special educational needs plans revealed
Anyone wishing to submit information, make comments etc on the proposals can do so between 9 March and 30 June 2011.
For further information, and to see letters written by the minister, Sarah Teather along with go to
and look at the left hand side bar.
The Opposition (Labour) party’s comments and views can be seen athttp://www.education.gov.uk/childrenandyoungpeople/sen/sen/a0075339/sengreenpaper
and The Teacher’s union, the NASUWT, reports its reaction athttp://www.politics.co.uk/opinion-formers/press-releases/education/nasuwt-comments-on-the-special-needs-green-paper-$21387674$1345015.htm
Further comments can be found by entering ‘SEN green paper’ into Google News. I expect there will be quite a few hits for this over the next few days.
North America Conductive Education Awareness Day 2011
I have left it a week to make sure all items have been spotted but if I have missed any, do let me know.
It is a shame that there has not been many, even less than last year and only a couple of centres dominate those reports – see below.
http://www.facebook.com/conductivelearningcenter
Announcement of the Day
http://www.susie-mallett.org/
Susie wished everyone a good day on her blog
http://conductivelearningcenter.org/2011/01/national-conductive-education-awareness-day-february-24-2011/
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=in5cyfeab&oeidk=a07e3c34z8dd091ebb5
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/02/conductive_learning_center_in.html
Information about the day’s activities for Conductive Education Learning Center
http://www.marchofdimes.ca/EN/programs/CE/Documents/CE_Newsletter_Fall2010_WInter2011_highres_web.pdf
Announcement of the day made in the Fall 2010, newsletter from March of Dimes
http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/eightwest/Conductive_Education_Awareness–
Television coverage in Michigan
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Happy-National-Conductive-Education-Day-.html?soid=1101637591853&aid=qk8FUdkSl4Y
Newsletter of the Conductive Education Center in Orlando, Florida, announces the Day
http://movingaheadconductiveconsulting.blogspot.com/2011/02/happy-conductive-education-awareness.html
Anne Wittig posts a blog wishing all a good Awareness Day and reports her attempts to get the media interested.
http://www.peto.hu/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=91:reminder-national-conductive-education-day-2011&catid=34:news&Itemid=60
Statement about the Day on Peto Institute website
If anymore come in I will add them to the list and blog it.