Conductive Education Aims

The media coverage of Ability Camp and Conductive Education can be somewhat misleading. The media is always interested in the big story and this usually tempts them to only highlight children's walking skills. At Ability Camp there are not any miracles for sale but merely five weeks of hard work in a very structured program. Our methods are unorthodox from the standard practice of therapy in North America but we have been very successful at helping children make significant improvements in their day to day lives. During our sessions the Conductors continuously evaluate the children and set Conductive aims for them to work towards. A few of the general Conductive Aims are listed below:

General Skills:

To develop hand-eye coordination.
To reduce uncoordinated over movements.
To develop coordination of movements.
To increase security and balance.
To increase attention and independent task solutions.
To increase activity, independence, participation and level of attention in group activities.
To follow task and keep relaxed position.
To achieve, or at least approach orthofunction.
To teach the parents how the children can apply the abilities learned to every day activities.

In a Lying Position:

To learn to stretch and separate upper and lower limbs,
keep wrist and feet in a correct position, head lifted and in a mid line position.
To reduce unwanted simultaneous and over movements,
to learn to keep the state of rest for a longer period of time.
To learn the basic movements of upper and lower limbs,
rolling over in both directions, sitting up.
To learn to stretch upper and lower limbs, maintain them in a correct position.
To learn to keep back in a corrected position in various positions.

In a Sitting Position and Manipulation:

To learn to relax upper and lower limbs and achieve correct foot and wrist position.
To learn to keep back in a corrected position in various positions.
To learn secure and correct independent sitting position either with or without support.
To develop basic and fine manipulation abilities, differentiated finger movements.
To develop manipulative abilities, grasping and releasing, transferring toys between hands.
To learn aiming tasks.

In a Standing - Walking Position:

To learn to stretch upper and lower limbs, maintain them in a correct position.
To develop stretching and separating of lower limbs in different positions, relaxation of hips.
To teach child to fall securely.
With decreasing help, learn correct weight bearing, weight shift and increase security of standing while grasping with both hands.
To learn bending and lifting legs up when stepping, keep hips in a straight position with reduced help.
To learn to walk with sticks or canes securely.
To increase security of standing and walking
To learn to step with correct length and width of stepping.
To learn to bear weight on legs with support for longer periods of time,
to prevent collapsing, by keeping lower limbs in a corrected position.
To learn to keep heels down.

Eating, Dressing and Potty:

To teach her/him to eat with a spoon, to chew correctly, to drink from a cup with reduced help.
To increase independence in dressing/undressing.
To develop potty training, to teach her/him to sit on a potty with support/alone.
To learn to use the toilet.

Speech:

To attain correct breathing for longer periods of time.
To make sounds.
To develop vocalization and to encourage the use of simple words.
To learn to reduce dribbling.
To encourage him or her to speak more loudly.
To use sound instead of signaling.

We do far more with these children than just trying to teach them to walk, we attempt to teach the children to do more for themselves!

For more information and to receive a Free DVD call Kevin (Director) at 1-800-442-6992 or email kevin@abilitycamp.com