What is a Conductor?
What is Conductive Education?
Conductive Education is a method of training children with neuromuscular (motor) disorders, such as cerebral palsy and spina bifida, to use alternate muscle and nerve paths to learn how to walk, dress themselves, eat and other normal daily life activities from playing and interacting with others to the use bathroom facilities. Conductive Education is being used successfully on patients afflicted with Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and rehabilitation for after-stroke care.
This form of special education, developed and put into practice in 1952 in Hungary by Dr. Andras Peto, maintains that the interrupted learning process cannot be restored without the active participation of the individual. It is not a symptom directed therapy; rather, a series education skills and programs administered by highly educated educators, The Conductors.
While Conductive Education is a physical rehabilitation, not a physical therapy, it depends on a sophisticated framework for an educational model in which children with disorders can have an education that meets their particular physical and intellectual needs.
The practice of Conductive Education is now common place in Europe and the United Kingdom. However, it took a while for its benefits to catch on in America. With only one US school supplying the market for Conductors, along with the Institute that Dr. Peto founded, there is a recent growing demand for skilled practitioners.
Schools and graduates are being actively recruited to accept positions in China. And, at the current time, there is only one member of ACENA (the Association for Conductive Education in North America) practicing in Texas.
According to cerebral palsy organizations, about 764,000 children and adults currently have cerebral palsy with 500,000 of these cases are children under the age of 18. This catapults the need and desire to provide skilled Conductive Educational methods to those afflicted with the above disorders.
DR. ANDRAS PETŐ
Physician and educator Andras Pető developed his conductive education system after World War II, in 1945. His method opened up a new path for the rehabilitation of children and adults whose motor impairments originate from damage to the central nervous system. His approach was first taught and practiced in the predecessor of the Institute now named after him. Conductive education is based on the idea that despite the damage, the nervous system still possesses the capacity to form new neural connections and this ability can be mobilized with the help of a properly guided teaching and learning process. That is the reason why Professor Pető called his method "conductive".
This form of special education, developed and put into practice in 1952 in Hungary by Dr. Andras Peto, maintains that the interrupted learning process cannot be restored without the active participation of the individual. It is not a symptom directed therapy; rather, a series education skills and programs administered by highly educated educators, The Conductors.
While Conductive Education is a physical rehabilitation, not a physical therapy, it depends on a sophisticated framework for an educational model in which children with disorders can have an education that meets their particular physical and intellectual needs.
The practice of Conductive Education is now common place in Europe and the United Kingdom. However, it took a while for its benefits to catch on in America. With only one US school supplying the market for Conductors, along with the Institute that Dr. Peto founded, there is a recent growing demand for skilled practitioners.
Schools and graduates are being actively recruited to accept positions in China. And, at the current time, there is only one member of ACENA (the Association for Conductive Education in North America) practicing in Texas.
According to cerebral palsy organizations, about 764,000 children and adults currently have cerebral palsy with 500,000 of these cases are children under the age of 18. This catapults the need and desire to provide skilled Conductive Educational methods to those afflicted with the above disorders.
DR. ANDRAS PETŐ
Physician and educator Andras Pető developed his conductive education system after World War II, in 1945. His method opened up a new path for the rehabilitation of children and adults whose motor impairments originate from damage to the central nervous system. His approach was first taught and practiced in the predecessor of the Institute now named after him. Conductive education is based on the idea that despite the damage, the nervous system still possesses the capacity to form new neural connections and this ability can be mobilized with the help of a properly guided teaching and learning process. That is the reason why Professor Pető called his method "conductive".
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