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Shepherds, maybe. Not this lovely lady. Her mind
Down through the years, Eas-
ter Seals have paved a way for
a program which now provides
25 specially trained nurses who
serve as liasion with the service
clubs across the province, seek-
ing out crippled children and
directing, them to treatment
centres, providing them with
home nursing skill and teaching
parents what 'to do to help the
handicappel little ones ,take ad-
vantage of medically prescribed
plans of rehabilitation.
In five camps, unlike any Oth-
er camps in the• country, hun-
The tight skin on his forehead
appeared like two small white
wings where his, hairline receded
at his temples. This gave his
rather cherubic face the boyish
expression of .a.six-year,old school
boy surprised at life, Yet X fig-
ured, he must have been at least
ten years away, from his la*
scholastic struggle, He pushed a
forkful of peas on 'his plate to-
ward a mound of mashed pota,
tees to ensure a safe landing
his: mouth for the elusive global
Pellets as the train swayed in its
rapid. transit, Vehemently he ex-
pressed his views of today's ed-
ucational methods for all to hear
'within the range of his rather at-
tractive male voice:
I had been fascinated while
watching him • manipulate his
knife and fork, for this was the
first time in my life 'I had ever
seen an honest to gosh ambidex-
trous person 'in action. . Yet this
achievement, • Shall . I call it, was
the reason fon his sounding off,
His . companion remarked on this
trait at 'about the same time I
noticed something unusual regar-
ding his eating habits.
"When I was six," he commen-
ced, "niy first teacer discovered
I was left-handed. For the rest
of my school life I was. in misery.
She insisted on changing my nat-
ural inclination to use my left
hand to the awkward torture of
writing, drawing and cutting up
scraps with my right hand. Her
first report followed me from
room to room. I was rated as
stupid because .1 tried to read:
from right to left and ..add col-
umns of figures from left' to right.
Nobody, until I was 15, tried to
figure out what was wrong- with
me."
His story was a fascinating one
and possessed from his own stud-
ent troubles to those- of his 'eight
year old son. "Ever since the
Russians put Sputnik. into orbit
our educators have been trying to
produce little geniuses in one gen-
eration," his narrative continued.
My own mashed potatoes were. by
then stone cold, and the peas on
my plate sat in a little pool of
congealed gravy while I listened.
Was I ,eavesdropping? Hardly, for
his voice boomed on in indigna-
tion.
He' bemoaned the frustration of
his youngster whose homework
the night before 'had been "write
dreds of youngsters will have a
Chance at summer vacations,
barred to, them otherwise be-
cause they cannot play exactly
as other children do. In these
camps counsellors with know-
ledge of what to do teach the
kids to enjoy life, to learn how
to care for themselves and to
give many of them hope which
their conditions have not arous,'
ed.
Easter sales; too, enroll the
services of leading physicians
and surgeons Who give their .
time and skills at the clinics'
which the Society and the ser-
vice clubs organize at strategic
centres in Ontario where lecal
doctors may bring their young,
patients', for examination and
recommended treatment From
the .clinics the children go' to
hospital if necessary or back to
their homes for a program of
planned therapy or training
supervised by the Society's nur-
ses.
.In the field of cerebral palsy
the Society's Easter Seals have
made possible 'advances that are
dramatic even though the task
is painfully slow and . expensive.
At various treatanent centres
throughout the province teams
of nurses and deetais are teach-
ing children to walk, to talk,
to feed thernSelves and dress
themselves'— even to become
helpful family members.instead
of helpless victims of a condi-
tion that -once spelled hopdless-
ness.
•Aco,ntribution to the Easter
Seal Campaign means' a, mem-
bership in a crusade of mercy
and service to children, who,
through no faUlt of their own,
are enormous burdens of afflic-
tion, but who need a little help
to carry /those burdens much
more lightly.
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six copybook pages on Japan,"
"Why, the little gaffer can't even
write easily, and he was in tears
because he didn't know where to
begin about Japan." The vocifer,
ous father admitted that the tea-
cher had probably taken the sub-
ject up in class but, he contended,
that at eight no youngster was
capable of writing SIX pages on
any subject before his bedtime,
"You'd think, they were cram-
ming them into one big meat grin-
der along with their text books
and out they expect them to
come, like these sausages, all
stuffed with knowledge." hose
weie the last words I heard as
he paid his check and his voice
trailed back from thelong corri-
dor separating the dinette from.
the VIP coach ahead.
It's the old argument of the
gifted child setting the pace for
the more normal one who devel-
ops at a much' slower pace. I
expect, the reason I have been
asked to act on several panels on
this subject before Home and
School groups, is because we had
just this mixture of scholastic
ability in our own family. One
son was an easy learner, could
grasp almost any challenge his
teachers experimented with and
went -through grammar, secondary
schools and University more or
less in a breeze. He was as in-
tolerant of his brother's struggle
with mathematics and the correc-
tion that had to be made 'in his
mirror mind . reading habits, as
were the `smaller lad's teachers at
times. Children of the same par-
ents and same environment, they
are as different in their selec-
tion of careers and the contribu-
tion they 'are at present making
to today's businss world as thy
were in their choice of amuse-
ments as children.
• There will always be parents
who grumble at what they con-
sider a too advanced educational
system and those who belittle it
and think it inadequate. I'd like
to lay a bet on the fact the am-
bidexfrous gentleman's son may
never become our ambassador to
Japan, but that there'll come a
day when he'll pound a desk and
contend that the Board 'of' Educa-
tion in the new subdivision in
which he lives,' should establish
separate classes for the above av-
erage student and give his son a
break. It's' as inevitable as day
following night, or one generation
following another.
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As winter begins to die Mar-
ch becomes the bright month
of hope for more than 14,000
• crippled childi^en and teenagers_
in Ontario who have been af-
• •flieted by accident 'and disease
or disabled by certain condi-
ions from birth that usually
linear' despair and dependence
on others.
And since hope. in action is
charity, 222 service clubs will
open their month-long annual
:Easter Seal drive on March 17
for $850,000. That's the price
that must be , paid in 1960 to
make life better for youngsters
who would otherwise find it
harder—if not impossible—to
become self-radient and self-
dependent citizens. In Clinton
the Lions Club promote Easter
Seals and have an active crip-
pled childre&s, committee.
Easter -seal contributions pro-
'vide treatment and training,
vacations in. specially equipped _
summer' camps . and all other
benefits that the 37-year-old
Ontario Society for Crippled
Children' has developed over its
history to children,
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