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How does Conductive Education work?
Appropriate candidates for Conductive Education
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How
Does Conductive Education Work? Although relatively unknown in the United States, Conductive Education is a mainstream form of therapy used to teach children with motor disabilities throughout Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. Recently, scientists at Harvard University finally
proved what Conductive Education has known all along; the brain is an amazing
organ, capable of creating new pathways in spite of significant damage. Conductive Education recognizes the fact that a
damaged brain requires a commitment of significant time in order to learn new
pathways, just as we recognize our children must commit several hours a day to
their academic education. The success of Conductive Education follows from the
fact that the damaged brain always has a vast residual capacity and this can be
mobilized with appropriate methods. Movement, speech, and mental abilities are
simultaneously developed. This is
founded on the theory that the child with a motor disability develops and learns
in the same way as healthy children do. However,
what the healthy child learns through assimilation, the child with cerebral
palsy must be taught as a skill. The Conductor does not solve a student’s motor
problem, but encourages active problem solving for movement so that the thinking
will become habitual. As the habit
is developed, the brain will rewire new connections as it learns new tasks.
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Last modified: Wednesday March 19, 2008 |
