The Welsh School uses a system of special education that was developed in the Peto Institute Hungary some forty years ago.
Conductive Education is not a name for a medical treatment or a cure for an underlying condition. It is first and foremost what the name suggests, a process of education and a way of teaching and learning.
Therefore Conductive Education can offer a specialised teaching method which is a holistic approach and not fragmented. This approaches the particular development and educational needs of each individual pupil affected by movement disorder. It is based on potential, not present development, on what might be, rather than what is. The role of the conductor in this process is crucial.
Many children fall far short of their potential because they have a specific learning difficulty. Such children are of normal intelligence and badly want to be as successful in the class as their peers, but they can become anxious and frustrated by failure. Their self-image is diminished and they may become reluctant learners or even reject school.
Our basic thinking is that children's minds grow like their bodies in a form of unfolding process and we can support this process by the environment and all we can offer is some kind of support or tune up to what will be the eventual outcome.
We believe that children already have an existing potential and there is an inevitability in the way they will develop.
Children are not born with a fixed intelligence or a predetermined learning capacity they are dynamic individuals whose intellectual and academic achievements could only be measured against a learning curve which was already heading for tomorrow. What a child can do today with co-operation he will be able to do alone tomorrow. Therefore the learning curve is infinite.
It therefore follows that teaching must not be aimed at yesterday of a child's development but towards it's future.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
