CPC Care Centre - Care Services In kent

Bradbury House

The CPC Learning Centre for Disabled Children opened at Bradbury House in 1996. Since then, over 200 children have benefited from the Conductive Education teaching provided. Initially a Centre to provide help to children disabled due to Cerebral Palsy. the Charity has continued to go from strength to strength.

There is a Life Skills Group which provides a safe, friendly environment in which young, disabled adults can explore their potential to live as independently as possible after leaving school or college.

Elderly and disabled people over the age of 30 are welcomed to the Day Centre to indulge in hobbies, games, outings and general socialising.

In addition, a Domiciliary Care Service provides vital help to disabled and elderly of Medway to make it possible to remain in their own homes.

Every disabled person, either referred to us or enquiring as an individual, is helped to the best of our ability. We encourage all, no matter what physical disability they may have.

CPC Kent also works closely with other organisations such as the CRB and CSCI to ensure proper treatment of disabled and elderly.

What is Cerebral Palsy?

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is most commonly the result of damage causing failure of part of the brain to develop properly. This usually happens either before or during birth or in early childhood, resulting in the impairment of physical movement. No two people with CP are the same. Many are hardly affected whilst others experience difficulties with walking, feeding, talking or using their hands. CP is as individual as the people themselves.

There is no cure for CP. However, appropriate intervention at an early age can ease its effects. Cerebral Palsy Care (CPC) exists to prove that having a disability does not mean that someone cannot lead a full and independent life.

Andras Peto

Andras Peto, a Hungarian doctor, began a program to help every child with Cerebral Palsy. He believed that children with physical disabilities caused by brain damage should still be able to learn skills that would enhance their lives.

In 1945, he opened the Peto Institute in Budapest. Now children and their parents travel there from all over the world to spend months or years of intensive therapy to gain the skills needed. Paediatricians, orthopaedic consultants, child neurologists, interpreters, translators and highly trained staff are all available.

www.petoinstitute.org