Re: Conductive therapy

[Guest guest]

Hi Blake, We have been practicing conductive education for my daughter for the last two years with a senior conductor in the US. We live in bay area California. This has been the best thing that has happened and my daughter has made great progress with conductive education (she has a genetic mutation disorder called Rett Syndrome). We also were seeing Diane Whiteside and practising MNRI and I have to say that both methods worked together for my daughter and was not contraindicative. We have for now taken a break from MNRI since my child started Kindergarten and is still getting adjusted to a new academic setting, but I do plan to resume MNRI since I find benefits in both methods. Hope this

helps.KanakaFrom: Blake <blake@...> Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 8:48 AMSubject: Conductive therapy

A few of the parents whose children have the same condition as my son ( a genetic deletion) have told me that conductive education has really helped their kids. Two of them live in the UK, one in australia. It seems to be hard to find here in the US. Has anyone had experience with this ? And does anyone know if it is contraindicated with MNRI?

[Guest guest]

I've heard from a parent at an MNRI camp that it has done wonders for their daughter and many ideas are similar to MNRI. There is a conductive ed school here in Grand Rapids, MI: http://conductivelearningcenter.org/. I've heard nothing but good about it, it isn't an option for us though because our son has severe visual impairment.From: Blake <blake@...> Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 11:48 AMSubject: Conductive therapy

A few of the parents whose children have the same condition as my son ( a genetic deletion) have told me that conductive education has really helped their kids. Two of them live in the UK, one in australia. It seems to be hard to find here in the US. Has anyone had experience with this ? And does anyone know if it is contraindicated with MNRI?

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Our daughter does not have the same condition as yours (she's 4.5 with cp due to

PVL), however I am inclined to write to you in any case since there are some

aspects to your question that I feel uniquely qualified to address.

We have attended 4 MNRI family conferences - one in Poland this past May, and 3

others in San Mateo, CA.

We have also, for about as long, been involved with Conductive Education. We've

had a wonderful teacher, Krisztina Abonyi-Bernstein, come to our house to give

Archer private lessons which were 2 hours each time, up to 4 days a week.

Not only do we not see any contraindication, we feel very strongly that they

work very well together. I would not imagine, in fact, doing one without the

other. This is not an opinion that you will solicit if you speak to either a CE

teacher or someone involved in MNRI. We have found everyone very entrenched in

their own dogma (with a few exceptions here and there), so everything we have

learned has been the hard way. To further make things difficult, there is no one

in the mainstream PT/OT world who knows much about either.

Currently, my daughter and I are in Grand Rapids, MI, (traveling from San

Francisco) so that she can attend the Conductive Learning Center here. It is her

third time. The classes have always been made up of kids with cp and spina

bifida, however I wouldn't necessarily know if there were kids with genetic

deletions - it wouldn't surprise me in the least if there were.

I have been trying to start a school in the bay area, however this has proved to

be very difficult. We did have a very successful summer program, which we will

do again in 2012.

Our website is www.conductivelearning.org

If there is any other information I can give you, or any specifics to either

program, don't hesitate to contact me at liz@...

Very best,

Liz