Current news...

August 2009: New staff members...
Helen Chung, Speech and Language Therapist joins ARCOS.
Specialist neuro-physiotherapist Detlef Jeske will be rejoining the team in September.

July 16th 2009:   An International Flavour at ARCOS…
A European scheme to share young people’s expertise and provide students with work experience in England is helping Malvern based charity ARCOS improve its therapy and training services for people with communication or swallowing problems in the local area and throughout the UK.
Raluca Klein, Tarik Sevindik and Sophie Reitschky are three students from the Max-Eyth further education college in Germany.  They are visiting England to practise their English as part of the Leonardo da Vinci programme.  Placements in host families and local companies are arranged by the Pershore-based Principia School of Language.

In their time at ARCOS, Raluca has been concentrating on developing the video documentation database at ARCOS and says that she has enjoyed the opportunity to learn to use Microsoft Access software that was new to her. She will be returning to Germany to take up her first job in an IT company.
Tarik has been translating text for the ARCOS website and that has included providing a description of therapy provided by ARCOS in this country in Turkish.  This is part of ARCOS’ initiative to make their website accessible to families whose first language is not English.  Tarik hopes to return to England next year for more work experience in the Midlands.  Sophie has spent her time with ARCOS shadowing occupational therapist Margaret Walker and observing patient treatment.  She said it had been fascinating to see such highly skilled work and she is looking forward to training as a therapist herself.

ARCOS director Kay Coombes said “it has been a pleasure to have these students and we have been tremendously impressed by their positive attitude, energy and skills, they have made a real contribution to our work”.  The charity wants to continue supporting the Leonardo scheme and hope that British students will want to enjoy reciprocal placements in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. The students are all via the Principia School of Language. 

Archive...

March 28th 2009: Facial Oral Tract Therapy (F.O.T.T) Special Interest Group (S.I.G.)

September 16th 2006: The World Indoor Rowing Record for 100,000 metres was claimed by Anna Bailey in 7 hours 43 minutes 58.9 seconds smashing the existing record by just over 12 minutes. ARCOS benefited from all the money raised in sponsorship and ARCOS supporters including 80 year old Tom Clapton and Liam Killeen, Commonwealth Gold Medalist rowed alongside her for short periods of time.

September 2nd 2006 : Concert - "Music - The Food of Love". Nicholas Clapton, acclaimed counter-tenor sings works by Purcell, Schumann, Faure and Vaughan Williams. All proceeds go to ARCOS. Concert starts at 7.00pm at St Edmund's Hall, Malvern College , College Road , Malvern. Tickets £15.00 (£5.00 under 16) available from ARCOS.

July 30th 2006 : £275 was raised during the interval at the concert of the Royal Lancashire Fusiliers in Priory Park . The new ARCOS "NEVER SAY NEVER SAY ARCOS" T-shirt were also on sale and proved popular.

July 2006 : ARCOS DVD 'NEVER SAY NEVER 2006': Pace Productions begin filming the current work of ARCOS in Worcestershire and Herefordshire for a DVD that will show some of our projects as well as the provision of information, advice therapy and training. The video is a follow up to 'Never say Never' which was sponsored by Barclays Bank after they learned of the ground-breaking activities of ARCOS with local people who had suffered strokes and head injuries.

July 2006: Sarah Little, Speech and Language Therapist joins the team. Sarah's expert area is the treatment of communication difficulties caused by conditions such as stroke and head injury. She also has a special interest in alternative communication; helping individuals and their families to use pictures, symbols or signing to add to speech or as an alternative to speech.

June 2006: ARCOS became the chosen charity of Malvern Town Council.