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The Treatment of Cerebral Palsy in New Zealand
Film (Full Length) – 1955
For John and for many other cerebral palsied children, new worlds of ideas and skills and learning are being opened up everyday. In every civilised country specialists are working to dispel the ignorance and prejudice which have surrounded the condition for centuries …– From the narration
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