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HIV & AIDS : services for everyone / Hounslow.

Positive choices for people affected by HIV & AIDS / The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Social Services.

142 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Art and regeneration / by Maria Petrie.

A charming film made with funding from the Lady Hoare Trust for Disabled Children, subtitled 'a film profile about the children today,' which looks at how children affected by thalidomide can best be incorporated into society and encouraged to lead as normal a life as possible. Includes footage of Lady Hoare herself addressing a small group of people, intercut with shots from Chailey Heritage Craft School and Hospital, and a film narrated by George Chatterton documenting a small group of different thalidomide children as they engage in activities like ballet, pony riding, eating, dressing and fitting into school life. The film is full of many interesting and moving sequences but particularly notable is the school PE lesson in which Tony Ashton, a four-limb deficient thalidomider, joins in whilst singing 'I've Got No Strings' and the closing sequence in which a group of thalidomide children drive electric cars made by Drivabout Ltd., prior to the advent of electric wheelchairs which would become, for many, a lifeline.

1 DVD (25 min.) : sound, black & white and colour, PAL

Only the beginning.

Recorded in the Leon Gillis Unit at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, this tape is one of a series of six video compilations and consists of sequences of amateur footage of children with varying kinds of physical disability affecting their limbs. Mostly the children have shortened arms or legs or both arms and legs and many of the children featured were affected by the drug thalidomide. Most likely intended for occupational therapy purposes, the recordings show how the various children can best move around and manipulate everyday tools, both naturally and with prosthetic limbs. The quality of the tape is in places quite poor with the image faded and tape signals frequently interrupted; some parts of the tape have sound, others are silent. Despite the low recording quality, these tapes present a rare and unstaged insight into occupational therapy for young children with limb deficiencies.

1 videocassette (48 min.) (1 inch) : silent, black and white 1 videocassette (48 min.) (DIGIBETA) : silent, black and white 1 DVD (48 min.) : silent, black and white

Miscellaneous footage of disabled children. Tape 2.

Administrative records of the Association  from its foundation in 1899 to the 1990s, including Council and committee minutes, financial records, correspondence, publications, leaflets and posters. Also included are records dealing with the organisation of the 1901 British Congress on Tuberculosis. The collection contains the records of pre-existing charitable funds that were later amalgamated into the Association, notably minutes of the Spero Fund and of the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium and related Funds. The records of the latter, in turn, include administrative and patient records of the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium, Davos, Switzerland, 1890s-1920s. A single minute book for one of the Association's local affiliated organisations, the Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis After-care Association, 1916-1935,  is also included.

National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies

23 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm

Elizabeth Casson, OBE MD DPM, 1881-1954 : founder of the first school of occupational therapy in the UK, Dorset House, Bristol, 1st January 1930 / [Ann A. Wilcock, Beryl Steeden].

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Occupational Therapy

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Art and regeneration / by Maria Petrie.

Only the beginning.

Miscellaneous footage of disabled children. Tape 2.

National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies

Elizabeth Casson, OBE MD DPM, 1881-1954 : founder of the first school of occupational therapy in the UK, Dorset House, Bristol, 1st January 1930 / [Ann A. Wilcock, Beryl Steeden].

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Occupational Therapy

Images

Catalogue

Art and regeneration / by Maria Petrie.

Only the beginning.

Miscellaneous footage of disabled children. Tape 2.

National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies

Elizabeth Casson, OBE MD DPM, 1881-1954 : founder of the first school of occupational therapy in the UK, Dorset House, Bristol, 1st January 1930 / [Ann A. Wilcock, Beryl Steeden].

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