Conductive Education has definitely made Sam a little bit more independent. I would have liked Sam to come here full-time because I think he benefits more from this than from full-time education. The school where he goes is an excellent school, but it’s not the same as Conductive Education. It is improving Sam in his physical attributes that will help him more than anything else.

He enjoys it here and he responds really well to the conductors. They can get him to do things we can’t get him to do. They can get him to sit up on a chair without side support and he will sit perfectly upright, which we can’t get him to do at home. And we’ve also noticed that when he’s walking I can hold him by his upper arms and he will dance and jump – he thinks it’s great fun! But he will walk really well with a conductor.

We wish we could do more with him at home – but he looks up at me in a certain way and I know he won’t do it. But here he comes in with a great big smile on his face. He knows what is expected of him and they don’t take any nonsense. That’s just the kind of person that he is. He’s determined and he knows what he can get away with – just like any nine-year old!

But I do know he enjoys it. The atmosphere is really great, the people are nice… and he has a good relationship with the conductors. Ishtvan (the conductor) throws him around – which he loves – and anyway, if Sam didn’t like it, he just wouldn’t come, it’s as simple as that!

The thing with Sam is that he can’t learn how to do things the “proper” way like you or I can. He has to be taught another way, a way that he can do it, a way that works for him but which adds up to the same results. That’s what they do so well here. That’s what’s so different about Conductive Education.