conductive education

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2shoes · 08/05/2006 21:42

when my dd was small we took her to school for parents (she has cp) not heard it mentioned much here so wondered if anyone had tried it?

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Christie · 08/05/2006 22:21

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2shoes · 08/05/2006 22:26

dd hated it but have to say I got a lot from it(didn't realise at the time) more the let her try and don't wrap her up in cotton wool type of thing.

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mulsey · 10/05/2006 16:34

I dont know where we would be without conductive education. My daughter has attended since she was 12 months old and is now 5 years old.

We live in Scotland and she attends the Craighalbert Centre, which is unique as it takes babies until they are 7'ish, by which time most children enter mainstream with support.
Dont knock it, until youve tried it, as all our children are different and respond to all different types of therapy.

The Peto Institute is in Hungary btw.
This is the website for my daughters school - www.craighalbert.org.uk

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2shoes · 10/05/2006 16:37

sorry should have said I did try it but didn't work for us. my friend has stuck with it and has really helped. was just interested in hearing how people got on with it. I think it helped us as it set us on the road

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heartinthecountry · 10/05/2006 19:27

Am interested in this as dd is now 3.5 and still not walking. What kind of approach does it take? Is it lots of repetitive exercises? How much understanding does the child have to have? Sorry - I will go and do a google search but would be interested to hear more from those who have done it.

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2shoes · 10/05/2006 21:36

\link{http://www.scope.org.uk/earlyyears/parents/sfp.shtml\this}
have a look at this link might help.
dd went to school for parents we only did it for a year but most people stick at it longer. there they do activities and exrices to help independance.
I was going to waffle on about it mulsey sounds better placed to give you more info

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ntt · 10/05/2006 21:46

I've been thinking about going to the school for parents in Putney. Thing is, our physios are Bobath trained and from what I've been reading recently on the Scope forum, \link{http://www.scope.org.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=1022\here} it would appear that Bobath and Conductive therapies use different approaches and can't or shouldn't really be used together.

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PinkKerPlink · 10/05/2006 23:00

My daughter went to a PD school when she was 3 who specialised in conductive education. We actually thought it was marvelous and felt very lucky to have access to such a thing

heartinthecountry · 11/05/2006 14:35

Thanks - there is actually a school for parents quite near me so might look into it.

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