Another list of Conductive Education Centres in the UK

Today I had a Google alert for CE which led me to a list of centres posted  January 2012 by Arty at

http://goosegrade.org/?p=7602

This is a curious list as some information is wrong and names of centres not quite right e.g.

Horton Lodge Neighborhood Particular School,

Lighthouse Have faith in Summer School,

Villa Genuine School.

I have no idea who Arty is, and why this list has been posted, but I suggest UK centres might like to check their details and send corrections and any extra information.

Please let me know how you get on.

Parents now choosing other options?

Over the years of compiling my lists of news items on the Internet I have searched under Conductive Education and cerebral palsy, as quite often items which didn't mention CE, would appear about CE centres.

 I have now begun to  notice that, like Conductive Education, most of the items are connected with fundraising, rather than information or developments about the condition itself, and most of this fundraising is aimed at raising money to pay for operations (mostly in the US) which will 'enable the child concerned to walk', and sometimes intensive physiotherapy is required afterwards.  Other options that parents are choosing is stem cell treatment or one of the body suits which are available. I have no idea how successful these treatments are, in the short or long term.

 Are parents not checking out all their options? Occasionally these parents live very close to a Conductive Education centre and may have already tried it, or perhaps this means that the option of  Conductive Education is not so well known as it used to be.  Maybe centres are not able to publicise their services or encourage parents to visit and see what they have to offer.  Perhaps cost is a factor as the average amount needed for an operation is £45,000 - a substantial payment, but it should only be needed once. Conductive Education is not like that, but can involve a lifetime of learning - and therefore financial input.

Can that be one of the reasons?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Just a quick note to both my readers (only joking!)  in between preparing for tomorrow and wrapping parcels, to say that I wish you a happy and restful Christmas.

Let's hope that 2012 is a good year for Conductive Education and us all.

Conductive Education World Congress, 8, 2013 - latest information

It is a year now since the 7th World Congress for Conductive Education, that was held in Hong Kong, and the German hosts of the 8th Congress, to be held in 2013, are starting to get organised and prepared for it.

 A website was established earlier in the year
   http://www.ce-worldcongress2013.org/

 announcing the basic details and information to come with a very colourful logo. Since then an English language flyer has been posted on Phoenix Konductive Forderung's website:

 

http://www.phoenix-kf.de/pdf/foerderzentrum/wcce_2013_flyer_english.pdf

This has produced some comments online:

•  Andrew Sutton's Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/conductive.world?ref=tn_tnmn#!/conductive.world/posts/203261606424343 where he points out that the English is not as good as it could be,
• and on Norman Perin's blog at http://paces.typepad.com/paces/2011/12/conductive-education-is-so-much-more.html where Norman expresses surprise at the description of Conductive Education.

On reading the leaflet I am inclined to agree with both of them.

  

Running and organising the Congress must entail a huge amount of work, and be a massive management and administrative operation, especially if all the documentation, flyers, programme, letters etc are needed in what is not the first language of the host country. The first Congress to have a website, I believe, was the 6th . .Those involved in organising this put together a website containing all the necessary information that would be required in good English:

 

http://www.ce-congress2007.com/v1/content/1/start.html?lang=en&sub=1
 

SAHK in Hong Kong became the hosts of the 7th Congress. I attended this one and was very impressed by all the material produced, the pre-Congress administration, the organisation of the whole event and of course their amazing website – all in English. A hard act to follow. 

 http://www.ce-congress2010.org/CE/

  

The Germans have to follow this and I don't envy them the task! It is important for them and those wanting to find out information about the event that the language is right, and it is vital for the reputation of Conductive Education. The International Pető Association oversees the event so perhaps this can offer some help with this from its membership so that after the next 22 months of preparation the organisers will present a Congress they, and the whole of Conductive Education will be proud of.

Internet News December 2011

 This is the latest list of news items about CE on the internet over thew past few weeks. Again, it is mostly about fund raising events and nothing really substantial.

I would be grateful if anyone finds this list useful that they would let me know!
http://parkinsons-disease.co/videos/conductive-education-closeup-television-one/
Film about children at CE Centre in New Zealand

http://www.theadvertiserseries.co.uk/news/darlington/9344004.Rare_guitar_signed_by_Sting_up_for_auction/
Rare guitar signed by Sting given to auction for CE Centre

http://www.urbanacitizen.com/main.asp?SectionID=3&SubSectionID=5&ArticleID=158516
Brighter Beginnings CE Center Ohio, now into its second year of operations.


http://www.stepscentre.org.uk/events/the-police-pay-steps-a-visit.aspx.aspx
Police pay visit to Steps Centre to talk to the children about emergency services


http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1111/S00054/sbs-bank-customers-vote-for-conductive-education-southern.htm
CE centre in New Zealand is voted to receive funds raised by bank customers


http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/5925553/Christmas-comes-early
Money raised on Christmas Parade will benefit Southland branch of the New Zealand Foundation for Conductive Education.


http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/yoursay/wirralletters/9352652.Thanks_to_Wirral_Sainsbury_s_staff_for_their_help/
Local branch of Sainsbury's helps raise money for Stick'n'Step CE Centre, UK


http://www.thecolumbiastar.com/news/2011-11-11/Front_Page/Unexpected_challenges_yield_extraordinary_feats.html
Mother writes play to raise funds for CE in Columbia, SC, US.


http://www.scope.org.uk/news/ingfield-manor-expansion?style=blue
Ingfield Manor School in UK is expanding to take pupils 16-19


http://www.cominofoundation.org.uk/PDF/PACE.pdf
Comino Foundation reviews its support of Pace Centre, Aylesbury, UK since 1996.


http://stepscentre.org.uk/about
Steps Centre, UK has been operating for 17 years with link to our story video celebrating the fact.


http://www.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz/news/help-for-lochie-therapeutic-for-all/1176819/
News report of success of CE with little boy in Auckland, New Zealand.


http://lettertobarackobama.com/letters/national-conductive-education-day?page=8
North America CE Association (ACENA) sends letter to Barack Obama to inform him about Conductive Education and the Awareness Day in February 2012


http://www.brucepower.com/4852/community-blog/bruce-power-donates-20000-to-help-special-needs-kids-get-steps-ahead/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bruce-power-donates-20000-to-help-special-needs-kids-get-steps-ahead
Bruce Power nuclear generator partnership donates to S.T.E.P.S.( Ontario, Canada), summer camp fund.


http://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/lifestyle/culture/visual-arts/debut_art_exhibition_1_3267152
Art exhibition held in aid of centre offering principles of Conductive Education in Sussex, UK.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-nutcracker-sophia-1121-20111123,0,5297979.story

http://swnewsherald.com/child-with-special-needs-is-on-nutcracker-stage-p478-1.htm

http://southtownstar.suntimes.com/news/9188825-418/orland-girl-with-cp-gets-shot-at-joffreys-nutcracker.html
Girl who attends centre near Chicago performs in a ballet with another girl with cerebral palsy


http://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/local/star_opening_for_new_school_block_1_3280294
New block for Ingfield Manor opened by comedian, Richard Herring.


http://www.stepscentre.org.uk/events/children-in-need-2011.aspx
Video of piece re Steps Centre in Leicestershire shown on Children in Need programme


http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=150297
New Christmas song recorded and released to raise funds for child to go to Peto Institute


 http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/9422880.Cash_for_Wirral_charity_after_online_vote/
Stick 'n' Step centre gets money after online vote by local residents.


 http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/funding_setback_for_special_school_1_4064809
Paces High Green school in Sheffield faces funding set back.

Hong Kong hiccups cured

After posting  about the publication of Conductive Education Press' latest book , Last year in Hong Kong we discovered there were some  problems which meant copies could not be ordered.

This has now been rectified and you are now able to order copies from Blurb at http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2826466

Please do let us know what you think of it. All comments welcome!

New book On Conductive Education just published

Last Year in Hong Kong; four presentations made to the 7th World Congress for Conductive Education, Hong,Kong, December 2010.

Andrew Sutton

Conductive Education Press, December 2011
                          ISBN: 978-0-9569948-3-7


A brief introduction on the back cover reads:

In December 2010 the Seventh World Conductive Education Congress was organised by SAHK in Hong Kong. The theme of the Congress was ' East meets West: adaptation and development'.

Starting in Hong Kong but now across mainland China, 'Oriental Conductive Education' is making enormous, vigorous strides, not simply in terms of the numbers of children (and adults) and their families served, but also in research studies undertaken and apparent official and professional approval. Most significantly, this appears to be developing along a separate line from that of 'Western Conductive Education'.

This progress may have important lessons and implications not just for the future development of Conductive Education in the West but also for its further adaptation to the needs of the South

Andrew Sutton made four contributions to this conference, gathered together here in this single publication. In the Foreword, Ivan Su Yuen-Wang, Corporate Programme Coordinator, SAHK writes

'This Congress might have provoked controversy if those disposed to believe that there exists a new face of Conductive Education might have taken issue with others who think otherwise. We have to remember that change is not always easy. Time must elapse, to soften the animosities and deaden inertia. I recognise Andrew's creative intention to give balance to his views on Conductive Education in the 21st century by including the ‘China perspective’. Throughout, he has discussed what has been accomplished in the West, what has been done in the East, and what in his opinion should be done in the future. I cannot overemphasise the great importance of the forward-looking pragmatic aspect of his views, with its gems for bringing prosperity to the world of Conductive Education.'

This new book is now available  for £8.00 plus postage and packing from  Blurb at   http://www.blurb.com/books/2806207

Where does the time go?

A couple of weeks ago I said that I was working on the introduction to the virtual library catalogue. This is still not finished ( though I am still hoping for comments and suggestions to arrive) as I have been side-tracked by preparation for two books to be published by Conductive Education Press in the near future. One of these is a collection of papers presented by Andrew Sutton at the Hong Kong conference last December. The other ....you will have to wait and see!

This time last year I was in Hong Kong for the conference to receive my honorary conductor certificate, and this was an amazing, exciting time for me - doing the book has brought it all back. Then in the UK it was very cold  with lots of snow and my flight out of the country was not certain, but did take off, and on time!  Not like that this year, at least not yet. Hong Kong was warm, bright and a very exciting place to be. I met people who had just been names to me and made new contacts and, I hope, friends too.

Details of the new books will appear shortly with details for purchasing them. 

Watch this space.

CE centre appears on Children in Need

 I have just been checking on CE Centre newsletters and found an exciting event for one centre flagged up.

Every year in November a big fundraising event takes place in the UK for Children in Need,  the BBC's UK corporate charity which aims to  'make a real difference to the lives of children all across the UK'.  This is broadcast on BBC television on a Friday night and took place this year last Friday, 18 November. Various 'celebrities' take part by doing 'silly things' and viewers are asked to pledge money for the cause.

In the latest issue of the newsletter of Steps Conductive Education Centre( in Leicestershire), it is stated that  this year  a film of the work of  the centre was chosen to be included. What a marvellous opportunity for Steps -  and Conductive Education in the UK.

http://www.stepscentre.org/AssetLibrary/Newsletter/Nov%202011%20Newsletter.pdf

In the past Children in Need  donated funds to the Foundation for Conductive Education's children's services at the  National Institute of Conductive Education, and there may be othe centres who have received help in this way. Perhaps the film was shown as example of how the money raised last year was spent - I don't know as I did not see the programme.

I do hope, however, that  all went well  and film did get broadcast and was seen by many, especially parents looking for help for their children.

New link to Virtual Library Catalogue

There is now a link on the right-hand side of this blog leading to the catalogue of the Virtual Conductive Education Library on Conduction's website at

http://www.e-conduction.org/?page_id=115

This catalogue started lifeas another blog

   http://www.virtualcelibrary.blogspot.com/

which was not very satisfactory and the format was revamped with the help of Ben Foulger, then housed on Conduction's website. This blog is still on the Internet but is not being updated.

It provides links to items on Conductive Education available via the Internet, some freely available and some not. These may be documents and articles in full, abstracts, or links to  register for more information or payment options.

A help page is provided for users and any comments on this will be gratefully received as I am in the process of revising it to make it easier to access the information the catalogue contains.

All comments welcome, so please do write to me if you have used the catalogue.

Conductive Education in New Zealand

I received a Google Alert this morning providing a link to a short film on YouTube about Conductive Education. The strange thing was not the amount of time it took to download, but the fact that this film was shown under the banner of Parkinson's disease and, expecting to see a piece about adults with Parkinson's, I discovered it was about Conductive Education for children with cerebral palsy.

http://parkinsons-disease.co/videos/conductive-education-closeup-television-one/

After watching several parents talk about the effects on their children with no mention of the centre they were attending, I managed to establish that this film had been shown on TVOne in New Zealand. Still, no mention of the centre!

The parents' expressed views similar to others all over the world and were generally pleased to have found a system to help their children and families.

Internet News October 2011

Its that time of the month again and I have some news items to post. As usual most appear to be to do with fundraising.



http://www.loughboroughecho.net/news/shepshed-news/2011/10/04/steps-charity-to-reap-benefits-of-charity-aerobathons-73871-29533475/
Fund raising event for Steps CE Centre UK

http://myangelhascerebralpalsy.com/?p=60
Mother reports her experience of Conductive Education as a miracle for her child


http://www.xpatloop.com/news/intercontinental_hotels_and_resorts_celebrates_responsible_business_week
Inter-Continental hotels support Peto Institute


http://pittsburgh.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?articletitle=Run%20to%20Support%20Children%20with%20Motor%20Disabilities%20in%20Pittsburgh&newsid=244246&type_news=latest&s=sbcn
News of a run to support Pittsburgh CE Centre, US.


http://businesssolent.com/site/solent/news/3987/6/10/2011/blake-lapthorn-to-host-solent-rocks-battle-of-the-bands
Announcement of fundraising event for Rainbow Centre, Fareham, UK


http://www.sundaytimes.lk/111009/Plus/plus_16.html
Conductive Education to become available at Dream Centre in Sri Lanka


http://www.bucksinfo.net/pds/conductive-education/
Conductive Education available for adults at Amersham Community Centre, Bucks, UK


http://www.saltscapes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1275%3Anews&catid=28%3Anews&Itemid=87
Report of adult services for MS in Nova Scotia, Canada


http://www.osadvertiser.co.uk/news/ormskirk-news/2011/10/13/west-lancashire-freemasons-present-4-000-to-the-legacy-rainbow-house-in-mawdesley-80904-29582796/
Legacy Rainbow House receive £4000 donation from Freemasons


http://www.lep.co.uk/news/local/ex_charity_chief_in_line_for_award_1_3752684
Former boss of Legacy Rainbow House, UK, Joanna Maudsley, nominated for award


http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/east-hampshire/three_year_old_kiera_is_in_the_running_to_help_rainbow_centre_1_3163450
Three year old joining fun run to help Rainbow Centre, Fareham, UK


http://lifestyle.aol.co.uk/videos-partner/the-benefits-of-conductive-education-for-children-with-cp-287355498/
Parent talks about her and her son's experiences of Conductive Education


http://juditszathmary.blogspot.com/2011/10/conductive-education-course-parkinsons_15.html
Judit Szathmary reports on her adult services in the South of England for Parkinson's disease


http://www.itv.com/holdingoutforahero/goodcauses/Goodcauses-Show6/
Rainbow CE centre nominated for reward by contestant in game show.


http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2011/10/27/school-snaps-on-show-in-commons-97319-29668403/
Photos of activities at NICE put on show in Houses of Parliament by photographer Andy Fox.

Where can I buy books on Conductive Education ?

There is not much published on Conductive Education  and it is not easy to obtain books through booksellers on the High Street, but I have managed to find several sources for purchasing books on Conductive Education via the Internet.

Some are new and some are second-hand and are listed below.

New books

Conductive Education Press has three titles available for purchase [see links in right hand sidebar]

Just do it!
Internationalising Conductive Education
Intelligent love
 Go to www.blurb.com/user/cepress for further details


Foundation for Conductive Education has a number of titles -

 Dina
Maria Hari and her conductive pedagogy
Looking back, looking forward
Contact  mel@conductive-education.org.uk for details


Susie Mallett has published one title -

Let me tell you a story
Go to  http://www.susie-mallett-booksandmore.com/ for further details and order information


Peto Institute sells a number of titles - too many to list here - on Conductive Education and other relevant subjects, produced by themselves and also other publishers. A complete list can be found at http://www.peto.hu/konyvtar/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50:araink&catid=45:foldal&Itemid=56 and contact the Librarian for details.


Second hand books

A number of titles at a variety of prices are available on searching for Conductive Education
at :

Amazon - http://www.amazon.co.uk/
                http://www.amazon.com/
                http://www.amazon.de/

Abe books - http://www.abebooks.co.uk/

Barnes and Noble - http://www.barnesandnoble.com/

Presentations to the 7th World Congress of Conductive Education

I have just discovered a presentation to the 7th World Congress of Conductive Education by Tunde Rozsahegyi is available on the Internet. The title of this is Divergent perspectives on educational priorities for young children with cerebral palsy: A case study and information about it and its URL has now been entered in the Virtual Library's catalogue at

http://www.e-conduction.org/view_item.php?id=248

Several such presentations from this congress can be found in theVirtual Library and its Depository. Many more were given at the time so if  you know of any others that are available online or you would like to send yours to me to be included in the Depository, please do get in touch.

Snippets and memories about Maria Hari on the Internet

 After including the bibliography of Maria Hari in the Conduction website Depository  at 

http://www.e-conduction.org/depository/MHaribib2011.pdf

 I thought it might be worth searching the Internet for other shorter virtual pieces about her. The list below is the result which is  rather disappointing as there are few contributors.

I was not able to find anything on the Peto Institute website at all.

If I have missed anything, please do let me know and then I can include it.

 Anon (2001) Obituary in Nursery World

http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/news/717668/briefMaria-Hari-director/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH

Borbely, A. (n.d.) Dr. Maria Hari

http://www.moira-cec.hu/en/dr_hari_en.html

Mallett, S. (2010) Thinking about or remembering

http://www.susie-mallett.org/2010/09/maria-hari.html


Mallett, S. (2010) Maria Hari on conductive pedagogy
http://www.susie-mallett.com/2010/10/maria-hari-on-conductive-pedagogy.html


Mallett, S. (2011) Remembering Dr Maria Hari
http://www.susie-mallett.org/2011/10/remembering-dr-maria-hari.html


Mallett, S. (2011) Making the rounds at the PAI
http://www.susie-mallett.org/2011/10/making-rounds-at-pai.html


Perrin, N. (2010) Remembering Dr Hari
http://paces.typepad.com/paces/2010/09/remembering-dr-hari.html


Sutton, A. (2006) Notes towards a history of Conductive Education
http://knol.google.com/k/notes-towards-a-history-of-conductive-education#H(C3)(A1)ri


Sutton, A. (2008) Maria Hari on Conductive Education
http://www.conductive-world.info/2008/09/mria-hri-on-conductive-education.html


Sutton, A. (2009) Maria Hari at the Palace of Westminster
http://www.conductive-world.info/2009/10/maria-hari-at-palace-of-westminster.html


Sutton, A. (2010) A Doktornő – a pedagógus
http://www.conductive-world.info/2010/01/doktorno-pedagogus.html


Sutton, A. (2010) One of Maria's favourites
http://www.conductive-world.info/2010/02/one-of-marias-favourites.html


Sutton, A. (2010) Remember Maria
http://www.conductive-world.info/2010/09/remember-maria.html


Sutton, A. (2010) Mention of Maria strikes a chord
http://www.conductive-world.info/2010/09/mention-of-maria-strikes-chord.html


Sutton, A. (2010) Hari, Nietsche,Kant, Sinatra memento mori – memento vitae
http://www.conductive-world.info/2010/10/hari-nietsche-kant-sinatra.html


Sutton, A. (2010) Emlékezés [translation in to Hungarian of Nietsche,Kant, Sinatra memento mori – memento vitae
http://www.conductive-world.info/2010/10/emlekezes.html


Sutton, A. (2011) Turning in the grave
http://www.conductive-world.info/2011/07/turning-in-grave.html



Sutton, A. (2011) Maria Hari in her prime
http://www.conductive-world.info/2011/10/maria-hari-in-her-prime.html


Sutton, A. (2011) A night at the theatre
http://www.conductive-world.info/2011/10/anight-at-theatre-fromthe-late-great.html

Sutton, A. (2011) Hariana 5 - Speaking out - what is and what is not CE?
http://www.conductive-world.info/2011/10/hariana-5-speaking-out.html

Sutton, A. (2011) Hariana 6 - Disciples awake -provide the means to touch others
http://www.conductive-world.info/2011/10/hariana-6-disciples-awake.html

Sutton, A.(2011) Hariana 7 - Obituaries - I marked it my way
http://www.conductive-world.info/2011/10/hariana-6-obituaries.html

Sutton, A. (2011) On Hari - and Peto
http://www.conductive-world.info/2011/10/on-hari.html

Anniversary of Mária Hári's death

It is ten years ago today since Maria Hari died of spinal cancer in Budapest.

http://www.bmj.com/content/323/7318/938.full.pdf

I only met her once very briefly at Heathrow Airport on the way to Budapest, but was present at the Birmingham Institute of Conductive Education when she presented the diplomas to the graduating English conductors in 1992. 

Mária Hári started working with András Pető as a volunteer helper after the Second World War and worked closely with him as he developed Conductive Education. On his death in 1967 Dr Hári succeeded him as director of the Institute, a post she held until her retirement in 1993. During her career she wrote widely on Conductive Education in several languages besides her native Hungarian.

A bibliography of her work is now up in the Depository of the Virtual Library on Conduction's website and this includes unpublished papers, books, articles and conference presentations   in English, French and Hungarian.

http://www.e-conduction.org/depository/MHaribib2011.pdf

 I believe all items mentioned are available in the National Library of Conductive Education or the Hári Mária  Library at the Peto Institute. English translations only from the National Library of Conductive Education.

Internet News September 2011

News items found on the internet during September. As usual most are associated with fund raising but one piece of good news for Paces in Sheffield, Uk came in at the last minute.


http://www.laprensanwa.com/2010/09/09/educacion-especial-puede-ayudar-a-ninos-con-dano-cerebral/
Report of CE services in Spanish language newspaper of Arkansas.


http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-08-29/entertainment/29940252_1_cerebral-palsy-summer-camp-spina-bifida
Announcement of new CE centre opening in San Francisco


http://www.churchnewsireland.org/news/irish-uk-news/c-of-i-news-briefs-30/
Bishop visits Lighthouse Trust CE summer camp in Ireland


http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/scd/workwithus/b2b/casestudies/perceyheadlyfoundation/
Brief report of student project to help create awareness for adult CE services in Newcastle, UK


http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110910/NEWS01/109110327/Step-Up-Cincinnati-brings-out-volunteers?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cs
Volunteers help raise interest in yard sale for Conductive Learning Center of Greater Cincinnati


http://www.royalcityrecord.com/life/Purpose+applies+permit/5375559/story.html
Purpose Society, British Columbia, applies for a permit to use building as an elementary school for Conductive Education


http://www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk/community/from_the_archives_1_1831694
Past news about Scottish centre at Cumbernauld


http://www.susiecornell.com/read-susies-interview-with-cam-mag.aspx
Interview with Susie Cornell who has had MS for 35 years, and visited the Peto Institute in the 1980s


http://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/gifts_in_wills_are_vital_says_five_oaks_trust_1_3039725
Report of Dame Vera Lynn Trust 's pledge to remind people of need for charitable donations in wills.


http://www.formbytimes.co.uk/news/formby-news/2011/09/13/new-formby-charity-shop-stick-n-step-is-looking-for-volunteers-and-donations-66401-29404478/
English CE Centre, Stick'n'Step, opens charity shop.


http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/royal_opening_for_special_city_school_1_3797117
Duke of Gloucester visits Paces in Sheffield, UK


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hau3NmI6iY
Video of fund raising event for The Movement Centre, Manitoba


http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3304260
Musicians help raise funds for children to attend summer camp in Ontario, Canada


http://www.nba.com/magic/cohen_omyf_091611.html
Piece about centre in Orlando, Florida.


http://www.johnnyinadress.com/2011/09/look-at-me-mommy-i-can-stand.html
Mother posts pictures on her blog of her son standing for the first time


http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/news/north-east-news/2011/09/18/minor-victory-for-children-s-charity-79310-29441503/
Heel and Toe CE Centre in North of England receives grant to keep services going


http://www.parkerpr.com/news-releases/104-cerebral-palsy-is-the-hidden-condition-in-education
Press release about cerebral palsy and services of Paces, Sheffield,UK.


http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/803
Question and answer session re Cerebral Palsy Care (Kent) CE services provided at their Smiley Steps Centre.


http://www.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?articletitle=Conductive%20Education%20Program%20Steps%20To%20Independence%20Moves%20Facilities&newsid=242927&type_news=latest&s=sbcn

http://togetherweflourish.com/2011/09/23/steps-to-independence-has-a-new-home/

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_759136.html
Announcements of move to new facilities for CE Centre, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


http://castlebromwichlionsblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/howzat/
Fun run in aid of Foundation for Conductive Education, UK


http://chrisgreenwell.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/gateley-helps-raise-thousands-for-childrens-charity/
Gateley law firm help raise money for FCE


http://www.rapidgrowthmedia.com/dogood/09292011CLCenter.aspx
Grand Rapids center awarded money to help carry on its work


http://www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk/news/local-headlines/cumbernauld_kid_keiran_s_back_from_budapest_1_1880582
Cumbernaud boy returns home after attending summer school at Peto Institute in Budapest


http://paces.typepad.com/paces/2011/09/paces-special-free-school-yes-says-dfe-.html#comment-6a00d83534345169e2015435d9306c970c
News of Paces bid to become a free school funded by the government in the UK

Catering for cerebral palsy in mainstream schools - how does this work successfully?

Yesterday I received an alert from Google which led me to a report in a local paper published in Plymouth, Devon, UK. This report stated that a mother of a child with cerebral palsy had enrolled her son in the newly built local promary school believing that all his needs would be met. Unfortunately, this was not the case as he is unable to use his walking frame in the classroom due to lack of space.

 http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Classroom-big-walking-frame/story-13364730-detail/story.html

Before Finlay started at the school his mother was assured her concerns would be dealt with :

"I picked what I thought was the best school around because it was new and because they told me his needs would be facilitated."

As special schools in the UK are on the decline and the emphasis is now to include disbaled children in local schools one would have thought a newly built school would provide the necessary accomodation for such children. The head master said:

All classrooms comply with government rules on sizes and the school is proud to cater for children with a wide range of needs and use full time teaching assistants where necessary to fully access the curriculum."


"The school is committed to meeting the needs of all its pupils and will always listen to any concerns parents may have," he said.

The school had arranged for a specialist to visit and review the classroom layout to see if there are any further modifications that could be made, he said.

It does seem odd that this basic need was not dealt with initially and that  a specialist should now be required to organise a classroom to allow for passage up and down for a child with a walking frame, but perhaps this report does not include information to clarify this.

There are a number of comments by other parents to this article which make interesting reading and are not quite as sympathetic as you would expect.

Books, theses and publishing

There has been some mention of a new book on Conductive Education that is the publication of a PhD thesis by Angela Morgan.  There is a link to this thesis, available in full from British Library, in the virtual catalogue on the Conduction website

http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=2&uin=uk.bl.ethos.410761

For those who don't want to read the full text there is an article produced from this work, co-authored with Kevin Hogan, which  is also entered in the catalogue, showing availability of the abstract at
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0952-3383.2005.00388.x/abstract

There is a link to the full text of the article on the University of Wolverhampton's website but this does not always work properly and I am trying to find out why and will then include that link too.

Virtual catalogue update

I have spent some time this week looking for more material to add to the catalogue and I managed to find quite a few which have now been entered. I hope to produce lists of new items in the future.

In the process I discovered something whichis now up  free - the Australian report of services at Carson Street School. There was a lot in the media about this recently regarding some 'doctoring'. I am not sure which version this is.

As always, I ask that you send me details of any material you know of available on the Internet and I will include it in the catalogue.

Up to now there has been very little response to this request, but I live in hope!