SPARCLE North of England Report
This report is about 8-12 year old children with cerebral palsy in the North of England. Researchers visited the 116 children and their families that joined the study. The visits were part of a larger study, the Study of Participation of Children with Cerebral Palsy Living in Europe (SPARCLE), which visited 818 children with cerebral palsy across Europe.
Much information was gathered about the children's cerebral palsy but more importantly about their lives - what they did in life and what they felt about their lives. A great deal has been learned. In particular there are important messages that children with cerebral palsy are like other children; some are happy, some less so. The children interviewed value the same things as other children; they value their families, they do not want to be bullied at school and they want to be able to participate in the activities all children do.
The study therefore has taught us much about how attitudes to disabled children must change; and about what central and local government should be doing to enable children to join in more in the normal activities of childhood.
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SPARCLE Dec 2010
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