CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION WEBSITE NEWS

Demonstrating the power of pedagogy to transform learning and development

No 8 November 2000

CONDUCTIVE CHRONICLE

UK: Scope winds down children’s services

Surprise announcement from national cerebral palsy charity, cutting back on education services and services to families. No information yet on implications for Scope’s involvement in Conductive Education.

http://www.conductive-education.org.uk/html/news/scope.html

Parkinson’s disease

New paper on the practice of Conductive Education for people with Parkinson’s disease, by Mel Brown of NICE.

http://www.conductive-education.org.uk/html/news/cepd.html

National directories of conductive services

The Foundation for Conductive Education publishes contact details for 31 centres employing conductors across the United Kingdom.

http://www.conductive-education.org.uk/html/register_entry.html

Links also to national directories for Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the United States.

http://www.conductive-education.org.uk/html/news/registers.html

Discussing Conductive Education on the Internet

Report on the second year of operation of the Conductive Education Discussion Forum (over nine-hundred postings in the second year). Links also to ten other Conductive Education discussions on the Net, seven in English and three in German.

http://www.conductive-education.org.uk/html/news/ceonweb.html

Training: CEHEG sets year’s agenda

CEHEG (the Conductive Education Higher Interest Group) outlines its framework programme for the year 2000-1.

NICE: five years on

Progress at NICE (the National Institute of Conductive Education) over the five years since it was opened by Princess Diana

http://www.conductive-education.org.uk/html/news/fiveyears.html

THIS MONTH’S DISCUSSIONS

Meanwhile, over on the Conductive Education Discussion Forum...

Discussion continued well into November on October’s hot topic, Conductive Education in the mainstream, and some light began to be shed in the search for conductors who really practice in Australia.

New threads commencing in November include the recurring issues of what is the scientific evidence for Conductive Education, funding of Conductive Education services (this time for adults with multiple sclerosis), and what is happening about conductor-training in the USA.

Two major new threads this month came from announcement of a project to open a number of free Conductive Education centres across the United Kingdom and an enquiry by a conductor about working with people with paraplegia. The latter evoked a bitter challenge from another conductor, which in turn led to some stern comments about professional conduct. At least the first conductor received plenty of useful help privately as a result of her enquiry.

http://www.conductive-education.org.uk/cgi-bin/mboard/conductive/list.cgi

NATIONAL LIBRARY

Keep up to date with the growing body of knowledge in the field…

The National Library of Conductive Education, situated at NICE in Birmingham, England, runs a lending system for external borrowers in any part of the world. For information about membership and borrowing, contact:

library@conductive-education.org.uk

The Library publishes a monthly select list of new acquisitions. November’s list includes further materials added to a growing collection of publications from Belgium.

http://www.conductive-education.org.uk/html/national_library.html

TRAINING CONDUCTORS

Train as a conductor at NICE

Those wishing to consider training as a conductor at NICE, to commence in October 2001 and qualify in 2004, should establish contact and open discussions as soon as possible:

training@nice.ac.uk

SMALL ADS

JOB CENTRE

Conductors are being sought, long and short-term, full and part-time, junior and senior, urgently and later next year, English- and German-speaking, in rather greater numbers (Hungarians and Russians this month) than are advertising for work themselves: still a sellers’ market. And somebody is looking for a paediatric OT to work alongside conductors.

http://www.conductive-education.org.uk/html/job_entry.html

MARKET PLACE

A very nicely located flat to rent in beautiful downtown Pest, surplus plinths for sale in London and help wanted in finding a copy of Standing up for Joe.

http://www.conductive-education.org.uk/html/market.html

CE CONNECTIONS

Announcement of services at Miracle Mountain and a call for families to join a new centre proposed in Michigan. Can anyone help over Conductive Education in Chile and can someone advise over what is available in Holland?

http://www.conductive-education.org.uk/html/connect_view.html

Remember, it’s free to advertise on the Conductive Education Website.

SURF THE NET

Every month now more and more material on Conductive Education is published on the Internet. Some of it is good, some less so, but the Conductive Education Website aims at a comprehensive contact service for everyone concerned with Conductive Education by publishing a continuously updated, classified guide to every substantive site out there in Cyberspace, in whatever language

There are now nearly a hundred links to Conductive Education centres around the world and over two hundred more links to other information, contacts, resources etc.

http://www.conductive-education.org.uk/html/links.html

Focus on Conductive Education in Hungary

As the Hungarian economy continues to diversify, so too does the provision of Conductive Education. Not every institution employing conductors in Hungary is on the Net and we have not necessarily identified all those that are. At the moment 13 websites in Hungary are listed on Grand Central.

Those that are may be roughly classified as follows.

Hungarian foundations

Egy Lépés

Petö Institute

Szegedi Gyermekjóléti Kerekasztal

Foreign foundations working in Hungary

Deutsche Ordens

Harris Methodist Health System

SOFT Early Development and Conductive Education Network

Private companies providing services to foreigners

Butterfly Complex

Misszió Rehabilitation Centre

Moira Conductive Education Centre

SOS Rehabilitation Center

Public institutions

Baranya Megyei Önkormányzat Pedagógiai Szakszolgálatok Központját

Konduktív Pedagógia Nagykarniszán

Somogy Megye Petö Intézet

http://www.conductive-education.org.uk/html/links.html

If you know of any other institutions employing conductors not listed in Grand Central, in Hungary or anywhere else, then do please let us know:

webmaster@conductive-education.org.uk

THE CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION WEBSITE

The Conductive Education Website is published monthly by the Foundation for Conductive Education as a service to the conductive community world-wide and offers an ever-growing resource of information, news, contacts and links for everyone concerned with this rapidly growing field.

Search this site

There is far, far more on the Conductive Education Website than we can introduce here each month on Conductive Education Website News. On the Homepage you will find various simple aids to navigating this site:

* regularly updated headlines to latest additions to this site

* a list of Contents with links to all pages

* a link to the site map

* a local search engine (just enter the word, name or place that you are seeking).

Bookmark this home page for your future reference:

www.conductive-education.org.uk/

Languages

At the moment all text on this site is in English. Links provided on Conductive Education Grand Central are to sites in any language.

Please feel free to make your postings to the Job Centre, Market Place, Connections and Discussion Forum, and your postings to the Discussion Forum, in any language that you prefer.

Circulation

During November traffic on the Conductive Education Website (excluding the Discussion Forum which is on a different system) peaked at above 27 thousand hits.

This issue of Conductive Education Website News is being despatched to over three thousand e-mail addresses around the World.

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