Today I have been checking on reports of Conductive Education Awareness Day in North America (with little success, but that's another blog to follow later) and found something else to report as often happens.
Warington Disability Partnership (in the North of England) is holding an exhibition as part of its Disability Awareness Day in July 2011 and has posted a list of exhibitors on the Internet.
http://disabilityawarenessday.org.uk/show/exhibitorlist.shtml
Mention of Conductive Education led me to search the list and I found this:
Stick 'n' Step
Sarah Smithson , 0151 638 0888
http://www.sticknstep.org/
Conductive education is a type of physiotherapy to help children learn how to move and communicate to the best of their ability.
Why, oh why, do we still keep seeing CE described as 'a type of physiotherapy'? I have always been told that if its being carried out properly it certainly isn't any sort of therapy, its an education system, and I am sure the conductors at this centre are doing it properly.
Am I wrong?
Please let me know.
2 comments:
Oh dear again.
Just thinking about this along side Andrew's posting about the use of the title Conductive Education and wondering whether it really would make any difference at all what it is called.
Would sentences like this disappear?
Here we see education being called a therapy with the two words almost next to each other.
What can we do? Other than to keep on pointing it out as you have done here.
Thanks, Susie. Perhaps if people keep questioning and challenging, things will change. Let's hope so.
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