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
Idea 28: Provide training in social networking (2 mins)
Every day during September we will post up an idea for you to vote on. The most popular ideas will become the things that the inaugural Organizing Committee of the Critical Physiotherapy Network focuses on in 2015. So please make sure you cast your vote at the bottom of each post. Quite a lot of people in the network are email users. Some are avid Twitter and Facebook users. Some even have their own web pages and blog on a regular basis. But most don't, and for many the idea of collaborating with others through hypermedia is a cause for real anxiety. I had one person in the Network write to me to say that they rarely used email or the Internet, and so probably wouldn't be able … [Read more...] about Idea 28: Provide training in social networking (2 mins)