Quit obviously it does work, as do a number of other interventions, as you stated. The interventions works for children and adults with neurological damage who are in need of an educational approach, it aims to manage a whole person, and the concept of treatment is essentially educational rather than medical. Patients work in-groups selected according to condition, age and ability, ensuring an optimal environment for learning, as well as facilitating motivation and socialization. The practice of Conductive Education is carried out by Conductors who take the whole responsibility for enabling physical, personal and social development. While they consult with other professionals as appropriate, they remain responsible for the overall process of assessment, planning, intervention and monitoring.
Conductors are movement specialists whose philosophy and orientation is that of an educator.
Because it is an active teaching style, it assumes that the process of learning belongs to the disabled child or adult, and therefore, seeks to generate corresponding active learning. Practice is planned and structured but also, highly individualized and interactive. It teaches problem solving, encouraging participants to find their own solutions to problems of movement and control for managing every day living. For infants, children and preschoolers the normal intervention for therapy is an average of three and a half-hours of individual therapy, per school week. This is often in an isolated therapy area, away from the classroom staff who for the most part is actively involved in the treatment plan.