C.E. Jottings

Cerebral palsy? Motor dysfunction? What do educators know anyway?

Education professionals in the UK have no interest whatsoever in the education or schooling of children with motor dysfunctions from birth. Education professionals? Yes: politicians; civil servants, academics, local authority officers, even teachers. You say I'm wrong? Then link me to the debates in Parliament, the DfE briefing papers, the research studies, the conference presentations, the consultation agendas which specifically deal with the education and schooling of children with motor dysfunctions. Where is the discussion of the relevant specialist training... Read more →

Inclusion: Déjà vu all over again. Arguments that leave no room for doubt.

I consider myself fortunate to have been brought up in the broadly Anglican tradition, for one simple reason – doubt. Doubt, it has seemed to me, is inherent in the essence of the Church of England; and a very good thing too. The publication in the mid-1960s of “Honest to God” wherein John Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich doubted even the existence of God (“Death of God” - google it or check it out on Wikipedia) captured my questioning late-teenage student... Read more →

Cerebral Palsy - some statistics and facts (albeit from a medical perspective) #CondEd

For my first blog post for 2017 - and first for a while - here's something that came my way a while ago and which I've just found when cleaning up my email Inbox. It's an infographic of statistics and facts about cerebral palsy that might be of some use to some readers. It comes with a caveat though: the infographic has been developed by 'UKS Mobility - Healthcare Products' and to a conductive educator is inevitably and firmly from... Read more →