Conductive Education

Conductive education

Conductive education classes are held on Friday mornings at 9am at Amersham Community Centre.  For details contact Maria Heine on 01494 533610

Conductive Education is a teaching methodology that encompasses learning and relearning motor skills. Through special programmes, it helps to transform the personality as a whole, by training the brain and body to work together in its emotional, as well as cognitive aspects, rather than simply teach physical exercise.

Conductive Education is neither a therapy nor a cure. It is educational, in that it teaches goals, values, and motivations, as well as skills. It is conductive because the teacher, the Conductor, leads the participant to ever-greater achievements by carefully fostering motivation, through continuous and joyous experience of success.

The clinical handicap of people with neurological disease or problems comes from multiple sources. All movements are affected: walking, talking, swallowing, rising from a chair, turning in bed, doing up buttons, etc. With progression, sufferers will develop problems in the control of posture and balance, and may suffer falls. Side effects of drugs may include abnormal involuntary movements or abnormal limb posturing, sometimes accompanied by painful cramps. Speech may become impaired, communication becomes difficult, with all the associated consequences of  mental anguish, associated with communication failure. In addition to the motor symptoms, patients may suffer cognitive changes that range from subtle to profound, where mood and motivation may also be affected.

Conductive Education provides relief and respite for both sufferers and their carers.

For more information see the ITI-UK website.  There is also a Parkinson's UK fact sheet on Conductive Education (FS41) which you can order by telephoning 01473 212115.