What is Conductive Education

• 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 system in its own right. It is not a composite or amalgamation. It is a system of learning that has been developed with groups of individuals with motor disorders.

• Conductive education is a learning process, not a treatment or therapy

• Conductive education is a partnership between the educator (the Conductor) and learners to create circumstances for learning.

• 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 uses only simple well-designed, good quality furniture and equipment.

• Conductive education has now become established in countries all round the world.

• Conductive education has FIVE main elements to facilitate the process.