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Title: OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY IN RELATION TO CEREBRAL PALSY

Reference number: 6631

Date: 1954*

Sound: silent

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.09 mins

Description: Trims and offcut footage of children with cerebral palsy receiving occupational therapy at the Westerlea School.

Shotlist: Title. In cerebral palsy occupational therapy is remedial. By games, by crafts, and apparantly diversional activities the child is taught co-ordinated movements (0.43) ext. large building, garden, gvs building (1.09) people walking in garden (1.22) wheelchair demonstration, gvs children playing in garden, on tricycles, football (2.00) Therapeutic play develops grasp and hand release with co-ordinated movements of shoulder and arm, also better head and neck control (2.10) gvs therapeutic play (2.34) By Knotting, Tablet weaving, Basketry and Painting, co-ordination of hand and eye in bimanual activities is developed (2.44) brief view head (2.47) FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITIES (2.53) Eating, Dressing and Everyday Skills are attained only after long repetitive pratcice in less complicated tasks and with the use of ancillary aids, special splinting mirrors etc (3.30) children eating in front of mirror, with assistance (3.55)children practising dressing a doll and lacing shoe on table (4.02) girl tying laces on shoes (4.30) boy at typewriter, various basic tasks, ironing etc, all performed outside (5.20) Therapeutic Puppetry (reversed) This develops finger, hand and mind activities and allows the children to practise speech production under conditions of diminished strain (5.55) girl with puppet, children applauding at show (6.16) 'Theatre Westerlea', miniature stage, children putting on puppet show, gvs other children watching, some c/u's children laughing and clapping (7.05) girl pulls down curtain on toy theatre, 'The End' (7.09)