TWO SACKED FOR CRIME
Interest
in Conductive Education
Eva Bower and Do Michael
Eva Bower and Do Michael
A
small contribution to the rough and tough story of the long struggle for Conductive
Education around the world –
During
the early years of her career in paediatric physiotherapy, Eva mainly
worked in special schools including during the 1960s at the Franklin
Delano Roosevelt School in Swiss Cottage.
An
early example of her openness to novel approaches followed attendance
at a Margaret Rood sensorimotor stimulation course. Eva arrived back
at FDR with a battery driven rotating paint brush which she then used
on a number of the children, to much amusement but little physical
effect. However, her drive to find new and improved strategies for
children with cerebral palsy was not diminished.
Some
time after this, she and her physiotherapy colleague Do Michael were
sacked by Miss Duffield, the head of Middlesex PT schools. Their
crime was to start up and run a conductive rehabilitation Peto group
at FDR after a visit to the Watford Spastics Centre run by Dorothy
Seglow and Esther Cotton...
Written by Eva's son Professor Mark Bower,
to
mark Eva's retirement
in November 2013 as Editor of the Association
of Chartered Paediatric Physiotherapists Journal.
Reference
Bower,
M. (2005) Eva
Bower – A career in paediatric physiotherapy, Association
of Chartered Paediatric Physiotherapists Journal,
vol. 5, no 1, p. 3
Labels: England, History, Physiotherapy
posted by Andrew Sutton | February 23, 2017
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