Conductive Education
What Is Conductive Education?
CE is a combined education and rehabilitation system. It is designed to create the optimal learning environment for persons with special needs. It involves a life span teaching and learning process, which helps the persons to move towards functional independence, to establish their own willpower and to equip them with skills to go about their daily living as well as to face challenges in life.
In a CE system, a clear structure for the entire day’s activities is established. Within this framework, the persons together with all the staff involved, follow an integrated routine of educational/vocational, rehabilitation and recreational activities that constantly reinforce each other. It allows staff of various disciplines to work together cohesively and in a holistic manner to help the persons learn through well-planned processes to experience successes in real-life situations.
CE seeks to unify the body and mind in a holistic way, connect the whole person with his/her environment and foster active learning via environmental interactions. Its goal is to provide a programme for both learning and living which will maximise their capacity to achieve satisfying and independent lives.
The ultimate aim is to cultivate self-reliant and resilient personalities, whose confidence in themselves is developed through daily experience of how the challenges of mental, physical and psycho-social impairments can be overcome. It enlarges the prospects for personal freedom by enabling the persons to take charge of their lives.
