Conductive Education pocket book

Today I was told about a new book about Conductive Education -

The Conductive Education pocket book.

This can be found at

http://issuu.com/jessicakatenoel/docs/cepocketbook

Jessica Kate Noel  produced this in August 2012 for her Masters project in Advanced Architectural design at the University of Strathclyde. It is  based on her experiences as a conductive education assistant at the Lighthouse Summer School.

http://www.lighthouse-trust.org/Enter.html

The introduction states  :

A simple reminder of  programmes and tasks as practiced at the Lighthouse Trust Summer School

Examples of lying, standing, sitting, and moving from 'a to b' are included with illustrations.


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Availability of papers on Conductive Education read at conferences

Today I read a posting  by Susie Mallett about a cerebral palsy conference in Bled. 

 

http://www.susie-mallett.org/2013/05/normal-0-21-false-false-false-de-x-none_18.html

 

She notes that there was a presentation made by a conductor, Gabriella Czifra, who also chaired the first plenary session, and asks where she can find out more information about the presentation.

 

These days conference proceedings are not always published as many presentations are made using Powerpoint and not written up as they would once have been, so only those present at the conference are aware of events or developments in the field. It made me wonder yet again, how often presentations and participation by conductors occur in conferences which go unnoticed or unreported. 

 

 In the past I have asked people either to send me copies of their presentations so that I may include them in the Depository on Conduction's website,

 

http://www.e-conduction.org/?page_id=67

 

or let me know of any plans to publish elsewhere on the Internet or in hard copy.

 

Can I repeat that request again?  In particular, can I ask you, Gabriella, to send me your presentation so that it can be placed in the Depository and be available to a much wider audience?

 

 Surely it is so important for the future of Conductive Education  to write, publish and record developments?

No news is not good news

Since April 2009 I have been posting lists of Conductive Education news items on this blog. Gradually these have developed into lists of fundraising activities for services all over the world, rather than interesting feature articles, developments etc.

 

 Why this has happened, I don't know.

 

Perhaps newspapers and magazines have turned to other things, the latest education theories, therapies for instance, and lost interest in CE. Perhaps those in CE aren't so active in publicising their work or submitting articles to magazines.

 

 I do not know how much interest there has been in the brief items I have been listing,  as I have not had feedback for them.

 

Therefore, rather reluctantly, I have decided  to cease producing such lists and just blog separately any newsworthy story as it is published.  If anyone has a good interesting story or article published please do let me know (in case I am unaware of it), and then I will be happy to blog it.

My lists, CE Centres and Conductor Workplaces

I believe there has been some confusion and miscommunication about my lists of CE Centres and the new virtual map of Conductors' Workplaces.

 

 

The links to the lists which appeared on the sidebar of this blog, have been deleted (although the original postings are still in place), and all information contained in them has been updated and is now available via the virtual map at

 

 http://www.intelligentlove.org/InstitutionList/view_map.php

 

In future please do go the virtual map for information about where conductors are working and to find out if there is conductor-led practice in a particular country.

 

As always I will be grateful for new information about these workplaces because I will need your help to  keep the map up to date.

Conductive Education Press now a 'proper' publisher

Conductive Education Press has  now published five titles

http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/3695419-andras-peto#author-bookshelf

 and is now considered a 'proper' publisher as we discovered on receiving a letter from the Agency for Legal deposit Libraries (ALDL).

http://www.legaldeposit.org.uk/

At ALDL's request  I have posted off several copies of two of Conductive Education Press' titles  to the Agency. Copies of the other titles will be sent too. The Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 and the Irish Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 make it a legal obligation  for copies of new UK publications to be deposited with the Bodleian Library Oxford University, Cambridge University Library, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales and Trinity College Dublin and the Agency makes sure these obligations are met. This means  that Conductive Education Press is now a 'proper' publishing house and its books will now be a part of the above august national collections.

 

I had already been sending copies  of our publications to the British Library depository in Yorkshire,  mistakenly thinking that this was all we had to do.

 

Now we know the correct way is to send to ALL of the above and, naturally, will concur. How nice to know that Conductive Education Press's books  will now be  part of the historical record of British publishing.

Are you being served?

On the front page of this blog is a note in the right hand column stating:

      Welcome!

         Please contact me if you think that I can help in any way with

         information on books, articles, papers, news on Conductive

         Education. If I can't help, I will know someone who can!

        Email me at gmaguire1@yahoo.co.uk

 

 

Over the past few years I have been happy to help with any information that I can and have responded to enquiries from parents, conductors, centre managers, and potential service users all over the world, sometimes at length and providing a variety of links, references etc.

This week I had a reponse thanking me for information I had sent.

 I was really pleased, and then  realised that this was unusual because once my reply has gone out, sometimes with documents attached, I rarely receive any acknowledgment, or even thanks. If I have not helped in the way hoped for, I never know. If the information  has been useful, I still don't know. This is leading me to wonder whether this service is not satisfactory and perhaps not worth continuing with, or not appreciated.

Constructive feedback would be very welcome and help me to respond appropriately the next time.

What else can I do? 

More workplaces now on the Map

Over the past week I have been able to add six new workplaces to the Workplace map at

http://intelligentlove.org/InstitutionList/view_map.php


This has been possible as several people have sent me the details, which is wonderful.   Conductors sent me details about the schools in Australia and Sweden, Rony Schenker  details of the Apartment in Israel, and Andrew details for the workplaces in Russia and France.

Many thanks to you all.

Please keep them coming and also don't forget to let me know when any close or no longer have a conductor, as  I can not keep this up to date without you.

If your workplace is not up there, tell me and send details!

gmaguire1@yahoo.co.uk

Conference this Saturday 8 March in London

This weekend the annual conference of CEPEG will take place in London at Tottenham Hotspur Football Stadium from 9.30 - 4.30.

Details are a little sparse but can be found at

http://www.cepeg.org.uk/2013/02/8th-annual-conference-9th-march-2013/

This is the 8th of such conferences.

On Friday evening there is a reception from 5-8pm at 'our London centre' which I assume is the London Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy as further details are up on the centre's website at

http://www.cplondon.org.uk/2012/12/20/cepeg-8th-annual-conference-2013/

New journal news

On looking around the CEPEG website I noticed that the hoped for new journal of Conductive Education is not ready for publication,  but articles will be uploaded on to the website in the meantime.

 

http://www.cepeg.org.uk/publications/

 

Producing a journal is not easy, as I know after editing and producing  Recent Advances in Conductive Education for eight years from  December 2001 -  August 2009.

Conductors' Workplaces Map - an update

I have now uploaded more places that I have on my lists and there are just over 350 of them. Amazing! I did not expect the number to be so high and there are still more to include.

Details about the map and how it works have been comprehensively described in Andrew's blog posting at

http://www.conductive-world.info/2013/02/where-conductors-work.html

Details of some places that I didn't know about have been sent to me which is terrific.  If I am going to keep this current I will need your continued  help.

 If any of the information changes, any new workplaces need adding, any places no longer operating or employing conductors, please do let me know and I can alter the entries accordingly. If  a place closes or no longer employs coductors I will make a note in the entry of this. This will mean that the map will also show a history of places that have come and gone, but only from 2013 onwards. It would be an impossible task to record all those centres and employers already gone.

In compiling this map I am indebted to two lists in particular. One of German places  found in

http://www.bkf-petoe.de/pdf/Konduktive_Foerderung_web.pdf

and the other, a list of places in Hungary produced by the Peto Institute in 2009

http://chez.gbart.hu/ogyei/tartalom/anyagok/modszertaniAnyagok/konduktorok-cimjegyzeke.pdf

Possible Award for Legacy Rainbow House next month

The Legacy Rainbow House centre in Lancashire has just been shortlisted for the Red Rose Awards in the non profit category.

http://www.redroseawards.co.uk/about-the-awards/

There are 21 awards up for grabs for businesses in Lancashire and the closing date for entries was 24 January 2013. The shortlists were drawn up last week and the awards will be made on 14 March in Blackpool.

It looks as though 2012 was the first year of the Awards and the winner for the Non Profit category was Carers Central (Preston).

 

Joanne Maudsley founded Rainbow House in 2001, and  has worked very hard over the years to keep her centre going. See the link below for further information.

http://www.thelegacy-rainbowhouse.com/more_info.asp?current_id=57


Both she and the Centre have won awards in the past too.

Good luck with this one!

More places on the map

I have spent quite a bit of time this weekend putting more workplaces on the Intelligent Love map and am beginning to think I have square eyeballs now!

 

http://intelligentlove.org/InstitutionList/view_map.php

 

Nearly 100 more places in Hungary, Israel, Germany and the US now have pins in the map, making almost 300 altogether. These are not all centres but include hospitals, nurseries, schools and nursing homes which have at least one conductor working there.

I have quite a long list of places waiting for pins, probably getting on for 100 or so. You wouldn't have thought there would be so many, would you?
 

 

I have discovered that some places are no longer operating and some conductors are not running their consultancies anymore. This is a shame, but these things happen, and new places are starting up all the time.

 

I have had some emails telling me of closures, and new operations, which is great. Please keep this up as it is impossible for me to maintain all this information on my own.

 

I would like to hear if this map is useful to you and in what way.

 

New virtual map showing conductors' workplaces

My previous posting mentioned that I was intending to update the lists of conductors' workplaces with a request for information on any changes known by anyone. I did receive a few responses which were helpful. Thank you.

 

For the last week I have been busy updating the information accordingly. This has been quite along job involving a lot of checking on the Internet! Librarians don't just work with books and journals etc.

 

   The exciting thing is that this information is no longer in a list format on the side of my blog but now on a world map with a pin indicating each location. Ben Foulger has set this up on his new website www.intelligentlove.org

 

 I have entered  nearly 200 places so far and there a still a lot waiting to go on.

The map can be 'asked' to show services available for children, or adults, or both, and there is a search option that can be used to show locations for  a particular country, or a particular centre. Do use the help page for further guidance and information.

I have checked all the details as far as I can and hope that people will write to me to correct any wrong  information, notify me of any missing places and any that no longer employ conductors.

Do go and have a look and see what you think, and let me know!

http://intelligentlove.org/InstitutionList/view_map.php

Where conductors work

For some time now I have been meaning to look at my lists and update them, but other things seemed to take priority. Now I am going to do it and have removed the out of date lists from the side of my blog.

 

I am working with Ben Foulger on a new way of presenting this information and would welcome your help in getting the facts right, so please let me know if you know:

 of any places that have now closed,

 any services no longer being provided by individual conductors,

 new ventures,

changes of address,

new websites and URLs


As soon as the update is ready, I will let you know.


I would also welcome feedback on how useful this information is!

New IT service in Conductive Education

I have just heard today about a new website and service in Conductive Education.

http://conductiveit.com/

This has been set up by Ben Foulger, a conductor with great experience of IT. He is available to help with all IT aspects of Conductive Education and has already received a contract to provide a website for one CE organisation.

 

I struggle with the technical aspects of communicating and imagine most of us do, so this development is most welcome. Now we have someone who knows about such things, someone  to  consult, help and provide. I am sure I will be using his services at some stage.

 

Do go and have a look at the website to see what Ben has already done and what he can offer.