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Oliver Medhurst sustained a traumatic head-injury in 1982, leaving him without speech or functional movement, but mentally unimpaired. This anthology of documents generated by his father over a thirty-year period illustrates the challenges the family have tried to confront in their son's care, treatment and education. All royalties from this book will be donated to the Oliver Medhurst Wheelchair Fund.

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Phillip Medhurst was born in Leicester, U.K. in 1948. He studied at Wadham College, Oxford before being ordained to the Anglican priesthood in 1973. After his son Oliver's accident in 1982 Phillip relinquished holy orders and pursued a career in teaching, latterly in the field of special education. He has now retired and divides his time between homes in Lancashire and the West Midlands.

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