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WCPT advocates for the inclusion of people with disabilities in physiotherapy profession

1st March 2016 by Dave Nicholls Leave a Comment

Last week, the WCPT unveiled its latest briefing paper titled Access to physical therapist entry level education and practice for persons with disabilities.  This paper and supporting resources are significant, not only for their critical and radical statements on the relationship between physiotherapists and people with disabilities, but also because they situate one of the profession's leading advocacy organisations in the position of critiquing physiotherapy's longstanding atheism towards disability rights. Physiotherapists have long paid lip-service to the idea that they advocate for the rights of disabled people, but have systematically excluded disabled people from training (with … [Read more...] about WCPT advocates for the inclusion of people with disabilities in physiotherapy profession

Filed Under: Editorial, Uncategorized Tagged With: advocacy, briefing paper, disability, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, training, WCPT

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