Conductive Education in the News

Conductive Education does not feature very often in the news in either a big or small way, but I do a trawl of the internet almost daily to see what has been reported and add items to my extensive collection of cuttings from the media that go back to the 1960s. The instant availablility via the internet of items in newspapers and periodicals all over the world has been a great benefit to keeping up to date.

Over this last week CE has featured as a side issue to the award of what is thought to be the largest compensation payment by a hospital trust in the UK, resulting in 14 articles picked up by Google. After errors by hospital staff at the birth of Owen Johnson in 1999 he was left severely disabled with cerebral palsy and has now been awarded £8 million. Owen has attended the National Institute of Conductive Education and made good progress as mentioned by

http://www.expressandstar.com/2008/07/01/8m-for-boy-left-disabled/

http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-health-news/2008/07/01/8-million-payout-for-dudley-boy-disabled-by-medical-failure-65233-21212564/

and not just the regional papers covered this:

http://www.legal-medical.co.uk/news/11910.html

http://itn.co.uk/news/ec810395d218c3d18d8c45ea79507247.html

The regional TV programme Midlands Today report can be seen at

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7484431.stm

Other items include a community award to a centre in Leicestershire

http://www.loughboroughecho.net/news/loughborough-news/2008/07/03/community-award-winners-revealed-73871-21220948/

A fundraising effort to send a child to centre in County Durham

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/39I39ll-get-my-skates-on.4242263.jp

A centre in New York, Standing Tall has been named as a charity partner for the NY marathon by NIKE

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-19-2008/0004835336&EDATE=

Not all search engines produce the same results so its worth checking others such as Acoona

http://www.accoona.com/search?col=mc&expw=1&expb=0&expn=0&pg=1&order=0&qt=%22conductive+education%22

and Yahoo http://uk.news.yahoo.com/

and it is possible to set up an alert to your email in-box from some search engines, e.g. Yahoo, Google when items are posted or even blog postings from Google!