BY JANICE HARRIS
22 Feb, 2011 07:30 PM
THE Spastic Centre is no more.
The organisation that cares for more than 4000 children and adults with cerebral palsy and their families has taken on a new name - the Cerebral Palsy Alliance.
Signage at the organisation’s headquarters in Prince Street has been changed to reflect the new profile of the organisation. Cerebral Palsy Alliance chief executive officer Rob White said the new name would have long-term benefits for the organisation and the thousands of Australians it supports. “We are proud of our 66-year history of helping children and adults with cerebral palsy but research has shown us that now is the right time for our organisation to move into its next era,” he said.
Prue McCarthy, who was born with cerebral palsy, said she was delighted with the name change. “It was really hard in the 1970s and the 1980s when I was young because the term ‘spastic’ was a derogatory term,” she said.
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