Conductive Education Day in North America 2013

ACENA has announced the date for next year's Conductive Education Day in North America. This is 21st February.

ACENA says:

The 4th “National Conductive Education Day” will be celebrated on Thursday, February 21, 2013! This day is a great opportunity to increase awareness of Conductive Education and promote your program locally.


Once again this year, ACENA will be offering its members a customizable Campaign Kit. In addition, the kit is one of the new Center Membership benefits. It is designed to help your advocacy work, and includes eight files:



a cover letter from ACENA’s president;

a detailed guide of how to use the campaign kit documents;

templates for a letter to editors, proclamation request, testimonials, and press release; and,

a pamphlet and poster that promotes CE.

Further information can be found at

http://acena.org/news/national-conductive-education-day-2013/

Award for Conductive Education centre founders

In California an award has been established to recognise the endeavours and successes of women entrpreneurs in the State and the winners for 2010 are listed at

http://www.womensinitiative.org/emails/wey_winners.html

Included on this list are the founders of the Avalon Academy in Burlingame, California. This centre was set up in 2005 by Annie Noolan, and Lynette Mullins, parents of children with cerebral palsy with Hungarian conductor Kinga Czengi.

More information about the centre can be found at http://theavalonacademy.org/

Congratulations to all concerned!

New Conductive Education portal now up and running!

Today I received the press release re the new CE portal which is now up and running. Rather than try and summarise it I have reproduced it here.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

November 5, 2009 Contact: M.J. Szimanski
Publisher@conductiveducation.net
202.560.75 1 6


Conductive Education Communications Center (CECC) Launched at

www.ConductiveEducation.net

Website Portal will Connect and Inform Parents, Educators and Legislators with Conductive Education Resources and News for Children with Cerebral Palsy and Related Disorders


WASHINGTON, DC – The Conductive Education Communications Center (CECC) website, blog and discussion forum was officially launched today at

http://www.conductiveeducation.net/.

The CECC website is specifically designed for parents, certified Conductive Education teachers and specialists, other therapists, center and facility owners, service providers, legislators, attorneys, the media and those involved with the care and education of children with cerebral palsy and related neuromuscular disorders.

The Conductive Education Communications Center offers areas including a blog, links, a resource toolbox, videos, attorney resources, worldwide Conductive Education centers, an employment center (for those seeking both Conductive Education employment and applicants), recent and relevant articles, news and perhaps most importantly, a discussion forum for parents, educators and others to discuss Conductive Education resources and experiences. Contributions from parents, educators and others will also we welcomed.

According to the Peto Institute (http://www.petoinstitute.org/), Conductive Education’s founding organization, “Conductive education is a unique system of teaching and learning for children with motor disorders such as cerebral palsy and spina bifida. It is designed to improve motor skills and increase independence of many aspects of common living.

Conductive Education was developed at the Petö Institute (http://www.peto.hu/) in Hungary over 40 years ago and has now been widely established in Hungary, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Germany, Australia, Israel , and others. There are other centers using principles of Conductive Education in Malta and New Zealand as well.”

For further information on the Conductive Education Communications Center , please contact the publisher at publisher@conductiveeducation.net. Sponsorship and advertising opportunities are available.

New content is still to be added and a little tweaking to be done. I am sure Mike Szimanski would appreciate any feedback that you may wish to give and it will be interesting to see how it develops.

Conductive Education in the US

I have compiled a list of centres offering conductive services with conductors in the United States, arranged by State. Some centres started several years ago in Hawaii, Texas, North Carolina, New York, Utah and California appear to have closed and are not included, but there are still over thirty centres in fourteen states on the list.

This list has been made using the Internet and may be incomplete, so if there are any centres missing, please do let me know the details and I will add them.

Conductive Education services in the US 2009 has been saved as a Knol and can be accessed by the link in the left hand column, under the heading Directories.