The Guild of Infant and Child Massage
The Guild of Infant and Child Massage
Setting the standards for the safe, professional practice of positive touch and developmental movement with infants, children and young people
LINKS
Links of interest to the GICM members
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Touch-Needs |
| Suppliers of Professional Resources for Positive Touch Teachers (books, oils, demonstration dolls, etc.) | |
| enquiries@touchneeds.com | |
| http://www.touchneeds.com | |
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Birthlight |
| Birthlight is a friendly,informal charity, founded by Françoise Barbira Freedman, focusing on an holistic approach to pregnancy, birth and babyhood using Yoga and breathing methods to enhance your and your babies well-being. | |
| enquiries@birthlight.com | |
| http://www.birthlight.com | |
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Training and Support Programme Website |
| The TSP (previously the Touch Therapy Programme) teaches parents of disabled children how to massage their child. The TSP consists of 8-weekly 1 hour sessions in which parents get one to one tuition from a qualified massage therapist. The programme is linked to a research programme at coventry university and for 4 years we have been researching the benefits of the TSP. | |
| http://www.hss.coventry.ac.uk/tsp | |
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Touch Research Institute |
The Touch Research Institutes are dedicated to studying the effects of touch therapy. The TRIs have researched the effects of massage therapy at all stages of life, from newborns to senior citizens. In these studies the TRIs have shown that touch therapy has many positive effects. For example, massage therapy:
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| http://www.miami.edu/touch-research/ | |
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House of Lords Report into Complementary and Alternative Medicine - 21 November 2000 |
| If you have trouble finding it from this, please go to http://www.aromacaring.co.uk/ and select the House of Lords report option on the left hand side. | |
| http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldselect/ldsctech/123/12302.htm | |
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Talk To Your Baby |
| Talk To Your Baby is a campaign run by the National Literacy Trust to encourage parents and carers to talk more to children from birth to three. Talking to young children helps them become good communicators, which is essential for children to do well at school and lead happy, fulfilled and successful lives. | |
| Sarah.nolan@literacytrust.org.uk | |
| http://www.talktoyourbaby.org.uk | |
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The Parent Organisation |
| Seeking without bias or indoctrination to provide parents with the knowledge, guidance and support they need to make informed choices about the way they raise their children, in the belief that better parents create better parents. | |
| contact@theparentorganisation.com | |
| http://www.theparentorganisation.com | |
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WAVE Trust - Tackling the Roots of Violence |
| Wave Trust is a charity dedicated to identifying and promoting early interventions and global best practice in violence prevention, especially in the form of abuse of children. | |
| http://www.wavetrust.org | |
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Well Mother |
| Well Mother is an integration of our work of shiatsu, massage, ante and post natal exercise/education, baby massage, homeopathy and relaxation. It focuses on allowing us to grow towards our potential by working on ourselves and our children, with a special awareness of the power of pregnancy and new beginnings.
Well Mother's primary aim is to support the wisdom of parents and babies by promoting the use of bodywork, especially massage, shiatsu and exercise, as a core part of 21st century maternity care. We work both with parents (mainly in Bristol, UK) and health professionals (worldwide). Shiatsu, massage, touch, movement and exercise, and homeopathy are powerful tools in supporting women to contact the wisdom of their bodies in pregnancy, birth and postnatally and for parents to bond early with their developing child. |
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| suzanneyates@btinternet.com | |
| http://www.btinternet.com/~wellmother/wellmother.htm | |
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BBC - massage and premature babies |
| You can listen to the benefits of infant massage for neonates on woman’s hour: Touch has become a taboo in so many areas of our lives. We're expected not to have physical contact at work, teachers don't touch their students. But if the overall tendency is to question the appropriateness of touch, its potential for good can often be overlooked. |
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| http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2004_11_tue_03.shtml | |
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Foundation for Study of Infant Deaths |
| The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) is one of the UK's leading baby charities working to prevent sudden infant deaths and promote baby health. | |
| http://www.sids.org.uk/fsid/index.shtml | |