PEDIATRICS Vol. 60 No. 2 August 1977, pp. 248
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A coming of age?

Ronald Mac Keith D.M., F.R.C.P.1

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The American Academy of Cerebral Palsy started in 1946. There had been a realization by some orthopedic surgeons and pediatricians that people with cerebral palsy had problems of a different character from the other children they saw, and these pioneers wanted to meet and exchange their ideas and experience. So Earl Carlson, M.D., a neurologist who had cerebral palsy, Bronson Crothers, M.D., a neurologist, George Dearer, M.D., physical medicine, Temple Fay, M.D., neurosurgeon, Meyer Perlstein, M.D., pediatrician, and Winthrop Phelps, M.D., orthopedic surgeon, met with mutual benefit. Dr. Phelps was the first president of the AACP from 1947 to 1949; in 1932 he had proposed the term "cerebral palsy."