Bobath Scotland

What is Bobath Scotland?

Bobath Scotland is a Scottish children's charity devoted to improving the quality of life for children with cerebral palsy.

We achieve this through providing specialist therapy at our Glasgow-based Children's Cerebral Palsy Therapy Centre, supporting both child and family in a relaxed, non-clinical and fun environment. The Bobath approach enhances a child's mobility, communication and independent living skills and thus their everyday quality of life.

We offer a specialist knowledge base to analyse the child's skills and suggest ways of enhancing their abilities. Everyone involved in the care and development of each child is invited to therapy sessions - including parents and siblings, grandparents, local therapists, teachers and nursery assistants - ensuring the aims for each child are co-ordinated and realistic to their own environments.

We equip parents and anyone else involved in the child's life with skills to support their children in achieving goals that meet their needs. Community therapists, teachers, classroom assistants can all benefit with the knowledge and skills to work more effectively with children who have cerebral palsy.

We also offer short courses to all groups involved with children with cerebral palsy aiming to promote an understanding of the condition and what can be realistically achieved using the Bobath approach.

A Brief History of the Charity

Bobath Scotland was founded 16 years ago by a group of families who fundraised and campaigned tirelessly to bring the service to Scotland - before this point, they had been forced to make the journey to London to access Bobath treatment.

Since then, the charity has grown and developed, moving several times in its history.  In November 2009, we settled down in our permanent home in Port Dundas, close to Glasgow city centre.  The new location, in a specially-adapted therapy building, has proved to be very beneficial for the families we help, and we have continued to adapt the building as needed, installing a long-awaited therapy kitchen in the basement in the summer of 2011. 

Nearly 700 children from the length and breadth of Scotland have attended the Bobath Scotland Children's Therapy Centre in Glasgow since our inception 16 years ago.

We are heavily reliant on public support to fund our therapy services - 75% of our income comes from our own fundraising.  We simply would not be able to help as many children as we do without the help of people like you.