May 16th 2010 - Conductive Education

On Wednesday this week Alicia attended her first training session for Conductive education. Alicia is going to go there once a week to start of with and after the summer we might do a more intense training period over maybe two weeks or so. The Conductor (her teacher) did an hour long program with her. We wrote everything down so we could remember all the steps. Our goal is to try to do the program every day at home with her.

We feel very positive to this training program and we think that Alicia can get something out of this and learn some new things. It is really basic stuff we are training. Teach Alicia were to put her arms when she rolls, how to sit up, how see can move sideways when she lays on the floor, wave and so on. It feels like all the exercises are on a good level for Alicia. It is a goal to reach for, but not impossible...

What is Conductive Education?
(http://www.conductive-ed.org.uk/index.html)

• Conductive education is a system of learning developed by the Hungarian physician Professor Andras Pëto in Budapest, Hungary.
• Conductive education was initially developed for the needs of children with cerebral palsy.
• Conductive education in its fullest form is a unified system of rehabilitation for people with neurological disorders such as cerebral palsy, Parkinson's disease multiple sclerosis and those who have suffered strokes or head injuries.
• Conductive education is a learning process, not a treatment or therapy
• Conductive education is an all day all life on going learning process.
• Conductive education approaches problems of movement as problems of learning.
• Conductive education can be directed towards all age groups.
• Conductive education for Children should start as early as possible. Many centres have parent and baby groups.
• Conductive education involves all that can be expected from a child's relevant age group.
• Conductive education teaches children and adults to achieve what they want and the motivation to find their own way of doing so.
• Conductive education enables the child to work in an integrated way with others with similar but often different problems.
• Conductive education embraces learning and development of movement, speech and mental ability simultaneously, not separately or consecutively.
• Conductive education is based on the theory that the motor disabled child develops and learns in the same way as their peers.
• Conductive education is not a miracle cure. It needs a concentrated effort over a period of time to enable the participants to achieve recognised goals directed by task analysis.
• Conductive education is a positive concept that looks for ways in which the individual can develop purposeful movement. It does not have a negative approach where complicated aids and equipment are used to facilitate motor control and stability.
• Conductive education has now become established in countries all round the world.