Advocated "The CP Therapist" combining physical, occupational and speech therapies and management of day-to-day activities rather than separating approaches into "treatments". Beginning with early intervention, the child was shown normal movement, placed in normal postures to stimulate normal tone, and not allowed to use motor skills beyond the level of development. The CP Therapist concept has been influential among physiotherapists in Britain.
Short description in Sophie Levitt, Treatment of cerebral palsy and motor delay, 3rd ed. Oxford, Blackwell Science Ltd. 1995. ISBN 0-632-03873-X (in Cerebra’s postal lending library).
The Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine Library holds clinical notes of Eirene Collis' researches into cerebral palsy, with her colleague Dr William Dunham. Wellcome Building, at 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. tel: 0207 611 8888.
