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| Conductive Education (CE)
teaches children and adults with physical
disabilities such as cerebral palsy, dyspraxia, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s,
stroke and head injury how to overcome their movement problems to lead more
independent, dignified and fulfilled lives.
The Foundation for Conductive Education (FCE) is a national charity with an international reach, established in 1986 “to develop and advance the science and skill of CE …. especially the teaching thereof ….”
To further that aim, the National Institute of Conductive Education (NICE) was created by FCE in 1995 as a centre of excellence for the development of CE. NICE provides services for children and adults with motor disorders, trains students to become conductors, offers a range of courses for non-CE professionals and houses the National Library of Conductive Education as a focus of research and development.
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| Conductive
Education is a form of special education and rehabilitation for children
and adults with motor disorders. It is appropriate for conditions where
disease or damage to the central nervous system affects a person's ability
to control movement. In childhood these conditions include cerebral
palsy and dyspraxia, and in adulthood, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis,
cerebral palsy and those who have had a stroke or head injury. |
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Conductive Education as the name suggests,
is an educational approach. Its aim is to help children and adults with
motor disorders learn to overcome problems of movement as a way
of enabling them to live more active and independent lives.
In addition to improvements in bodily control, parents, adult service-users and their families frequently report on an increase in confidence, motivation and general well-being. The combination of these can often lead to the successful management of and participation in a wide range of social and personal situations. |
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Due to the frequent close mutual dependence of children and adults with motor disorders and their families, the benefits of Conductive Education may be experienced as strongly by family carers as by those directly involved.
In adulthood Conductive Education is provided for people who have experienced a range of conditions, including Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis and the after-effects of head injuries and strokes. In childhood, the most commonly served conditions are the cerebral palsies.
The fundamental tenet of conductive pedagogy for motor disorders is to address problems that may arise from motor disorders as problems of learning, coupled with an underlying assumption that everyone is capable of learning if appropriately taught; problems of learning are therefore construed as problems of teaching. There may be potentially many pedagogies through which to address such problems: conductive pedagogy has currently gained a small foothold in most of the advanced economies, part of a worldwide conductive movement. Andrew Sutton
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"All things are made to feel important in Conductive Education. It's about your whole being, not just about being taught to speak or walk." Parent of six year old boy |
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© 2006 The Foundation for Conductive Education
The Foundation promotes and safeguards the welfare of its children and vulnerable adults
