I have received an enquiry asking where statistics on the number of children with cerebral palsy receiving/received Conductive Education can be found. Well, as far as I know there are none. Individual providers may well keep their own for administrative purposes and to include them in Annual Reports, but these are not made available in an obvious public way or collated by anyone.
The Peto Institute did produce some statistics quite a while ago, a copy of which is in the National Conductive Education Library, and Maria Hari often talked about 'making the statistic', including them in her early presentations. These, of course, are now way out of date.
I referred the enquirer to the National Library of Conductive Education where it may be possible to find some figures in student dissertations, conference proceedings or research articles. Quite a time consuming process.
How useful they can be, I am not sure, but if anyone is willing to send me any figures they know of, I will try and produce an overall picture and put it on this blog.
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I suspect that any such figure would be a 'meaningless fact', partly because of the sheer complexity of crieria involved (what do you count, heads, service-hours, what?) and also popssibly the unreliability of the reporting!
And never mind the awkward question beneath: what in fact are peopel geting in the name of 'Conductive Education'.
There's another figure that I would like to know, how many people who experienced 'it', whatever that is, are now affected in any way by that experienced. One could make a nice quotient, programme by programme, for comparative purposes.
Just a notion. Like achieving the first figure, the whole exercise iooks dead in the water before it begins because of criterial issues and thel ikely reliability of any reporting achieved!
A.
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