LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Peto Institute opens in London

Genre

Interview; Music

TX Date

20 Feb 1992

Year of production

1992

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Duration

00:03:10

Description

Emma Howard interviews Spastics Society director of operations, Robert Hancock and chairman of the Stars Organisation for Spastics (SOS), Bob Monkhouse about the opening of Britain’s first Peto Institute for children suffering from cerebral palsy and other motor diseases. The new Peto Andras Centre, in Fitzroy Square, London, means that families across the UK will now have much easier access to the system of treatment known as conductive education which has brought benefits for many children and adults across the world. Includes recording of singing and shouting from the school.

Contributors

Bob Monkhouse; Emma Howard; Robert Hancock

Keywords

London; Education; UK; Great Britain; Children (age group); Schools; Students; Hungary; Special schools; Cerebral palsy; Peto Institute; Peto Andras Centre; Fitzroy Square

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