I am a retired paediatric physiotherapist and a Churchill Fellow of 1973. I was granted a three-month Fellowship and was able to visit Hungary, Italy and Switzerland to study new concepts and techniques in the treatment of children with cerebral palsy and neurological disorders.

I was among the first to visit the Peto Institute for Conductive Education in Budapest where children with various neurological difficulties were being treated, linking active movement with speech. It was an interesting time to be there, at the height of the Cold War.

I visited leading paediatricians in Florence who were developing early assessment tools for babies and also providing facilities for children with severe global development delay. I spent time in Bern at the Inselspital University Hospital's Bobath physiotherapy clinic where very early intervention was being developed. At the time the Bobath Centre in London (a private facility) rarely saw children under two years old.

My Fellowship proved to be a springboard for an international career with three years in India, teaching consultancies in several countries and work for World Health Organisation. I am very grateful for this.