First of its kind? New job advertised in Australia

I have just been sent an alert about a new job advertised in Australia  for a Planning and Implementation Manager - Conductive Education, based at the Cerebral Palsy Education Centre (CPEC),  who will be involved in the production of courses at the centre, e-learning packages  and on-line course modules.
 The CPEC want someone :

Coming from an education background where you have had experience developing course modules this is a role that will align your values and take this world leading programme to Australia and abroad.

Further information is available at http://www.jobs.newcastle.iprime.com.au/education-and-training-jobs/other/1158856

No mention is made of the need for knowledge or experience of Conductive Education that I could find.

My new brain - a programme not to be missed

My new brain is the title of a TV programme being broadcast  on Wednesday 25 August by Channel 4 at 9pm. This tells the story of a young man, Simon, now 20 years old,  who had an accident resulting in severe head injury. He came out of a coma with poor memory and concentration, erratic speech and unable to organise himself, very like a 4 year old.

The cameras have followed his rehabilitation resulting in a tribute to those who cared for and helped him, especially his family, through this life changing episode of  Simon's life

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/my-new-brain

New website for the Peto Institute ?

Yesterday I  needed to check the date of a Peto Institute publication and clicked on the link for the publications page that I gave a few weeks ago.
http://www.gillian-maguire.info/2010/07/conductive-education-publications-for.html

To my dismay there was nothing there and so I put Peto Institute into Google again and found what looks like a new site under construction using the previous URL. It does look very crisp and clear with colourful pictures across the top, but at present there are no pages for the library and publications that I could find.

 I will keep checking and when I find this information up again on the Internet, I will let you know.

http://www.peto.hu/

More Conductive Education videos available online

A while ago I posted a blog about a source of videos on Conductive Education.

http://www.gillian-maguire.info/2009/10/conductive-education-videos.html

Today I have found another one, courtesy of Google alerts.


http://www.voobys.com/video/search_video.php?q=conductive

This has 6 pages of videos to browse through covering for example, children and adults, news stories, assesment videos,centres, fundraising events. I have not been able to discover much about this site other than it is :

' The first multimedia search engine that helps you find video music and image in one click.'

Let me know what you think.

Change of name

It is now five months since the launch of the New Conductive Education Library at

http://virtualcelibrary.blogspot.com/ 

and I think that the Library can not be considered 'new' anymore.

Today I have changed its name to The Virtual Conductive Education Library. It is still  a catalogue of items on the Internet, the URL remains the same and the content has not been altered.

 I will continue to add items as I find them.

New additions in New Conductive Education Library catalogue

A number of new additions have been made to the Conductive Education overview section in the New Conductive Education Library today.

http://virtualcelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/04/conductive-education-overview.html

 I am discovering material in a variety of languages now, so these include items in in English, German and Finnish.

I hope to add more and would like to ask as I usually do, that you send me information and links to any papers, articles etc that are still not included.

Internet News no 13, August 2010

Here is a list of news items found on the Internet over the past month and its good to have a couple from Germany and Spain this month. No doubt there will be less items to come over the next few weeks for the next list, as the summer holidays are now with us again.


http://www.percyhedley.org.uk/news/100708-CE.asp
Report on CE research meeting in Newcastle, UK

http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=2665758
Hungarian conductors teach at summer camp in Ontario

http://www.haaretz.com/magazine/friday-supplement/family-affair-the-painters-apartment-1.300975
Israeli conductor works with carers at flat for people with special needs.
http://www.pr.com/press-release/248904
Fundraising event by Drama Group for Rainbow House centre in UK

http://www.ledburyreporter.co.uk/news/8276146.Colourful_characters_will_be_around_Colwall_on_Sunday/

http://www.ledburyreporter.co.uk/news/8289605.Scarecrow_festival_a_great_success/
Fundraising event for Megan Baker House centre UK

http://www.bclocalnews.com/fraser_valley/abbynews/news/87007362.html
Family who have tried CE hope to open respite care home for those with special needs

http://dfwthrivemagazine.com/showarticle.asp?artid=66
Father who started up A Child Can Do All Things CE centre talks about setting up trusts to provide for special needs children.

http://www.reporter-times.com/stories/2010/04/20/columnl.qp-9411309.sto
Story about Jackson centre in the US. [You will need to register to read this in full]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/columnists/nchurnin/stories/DN-nh_kidfit_1013gd.ART.State.Edition1.4bc1e5c.html
Story about A Child Can Do All Things CE centre in Dallas.

http://bungy4conductiveed.vpweb.com.au/default.html
Bungy Jump fundraiser for child to receive CE.

http://www.wpcva.com/articles/2010/07/21/chatham/opinion/opinion04.txt
Parent thanks local community for raising funds for her child to attend Blue Ridge Association for Conductive Education.

http://www.osadvertiser.co.uk/news/ormskirk-news/2010/07/01/plans-to-create-new-rehabilitation-unit-at-the-legacy-rainbow-house-rejected-by-chorley-council-80904-26756229/
Plans to create a new unit blocked by local authority planning committee in Cheshire

http://www.childrenshopeinaction.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/CHIA-June-2010-Newsletter1.pdf
News of the start of CE groups in Vietnam

http://www.nz-online.de/artikel.asp?art=1271303&kat=317
Report of Conductive Education in Boxdorf, Germany [in German] ( A translation is available at http://www.susie-mallett.org/2010/08/inclusion-or-natural-progression-part.html )

http://www.rojoyazul.es/noticias/el-consell-apuesta-por-la-atencion-temprana-para-garantizar-la-igualdad-de-oportunidades-de-los-ninos-discapacitados-2/
Provincial minister pledges official support for CE centre in Spain.

Directories lost - and found again

Today I received an email informing me that the links to the Directories on the right-hand side of this blog were no longer working. On investigation I discovered that when I changed the URL for the blog a couple of months ago I didn't change the links to the directories accordingly.

This has now been corrected and each list is now available again at the click of the mouse.

If anyone else has had trouble accessing this information, please accept my apologies for this oversight.

A lesson well and truly learned now!