2002 Programme

The Legend Behind The Results

Conference Programme

Thursday 26^th September 2002

9.00  Registration & Morning Refreshments Served

 

9:30  Welcome

Judit Szathmáry, Senior Conductor, Founder / Director, Conductive Education Support Services.

 

9:45  A brief yesteryear of Conductive Pedagogy.

Andrew Sutton, Director Foundation for Conductive Education, Birmingham .

 

10.15  Conductive Pedagogy for Creative Early Years.

Judit Szathmáry, Senior Conductor

Founder / Director, Conductive Education Support Services .

 

10:50  Questions  

 

11.00  Refreshment Break

 

11.30 Dyspraxia: The importance of the connection between language, movement and thought.

Dr Melanie Brown, Senior Conductor - Sessional & Training Services The National Institute of Conductive Education, Birmingham .

 

12.10  Questions

 

12.20  Soup for the soul.

Amanda Elliott, Project Co-ordinator / Conductor Conductive Education Support Services.

 

12.50  Questions

 

1.00  Lunch

 

2.00  Defining Kindergarten Curriculum through the Practice of Conductive Pedagogy.

Judit Szathmáry, Senior Conductor

Founder / Director, Conductive Education Support Services.

 

2:30  Questions

 

2:40  Video Presentation: ‘Little things mean a lot’ – The practice and promise of Conductive Education for   people with late stage Multiple Sclerosis.

Lisa Gombinsky Conductor, Adult Conductive Education, Ontario March of Dimes, Canada.  

Susan Saundercook Producer, Communications Department, Ontario March of Dimes, Canada.  

 

  3.00  Questions

 

3:10  Refreshments

 

3.40  The Art of Facilitation.

Judit Szathmáry, Senior Conductor, Founder / Director, Conductive Education Support Services.

 

4.15  Open Forum  

 

Friday 27^th September 2002

 

9.00  Registration & Morning Refreshments Served

 

9:30  Welcome

Judit Szathmáry, Senior Conductor, Founder / Director. Conductive Education Support Services.

 

9:40  Meeting the Challenge: Maintaining and sustaining programmes using the principles of Conductive Education within the Special Needs State   Education System.

Elizabeth McDonnell, Principal  Xavier Special School. Queensland, Australia.

 

10:10  Open forum

 

10:20  Analysing and responding to the needs of Mainstream Schools that admit pupils from Conductive Education.

Tünde Rózsahegyi , Conductor in Charge, Training. The National Institute of Conductive Education, Birmingham.

  

10:50  Questions

 

11:00  Refreshment Break

 

11.30  Life Beyond Diagnosis: the impact of Conductive Education on adults with acquired progressive neurological conditions.

Dr Melanie Brown, Senior Conductor - Sessional & Training Services. The National Institute of

Conductive Education, Birmingham.

 

12.10  Questions

 

12.20  Conduction:  The Elementary  Instrument for learning.

Judit Szathmáry, Senior Conductor, Founder / Director, Conductive Education Support Services.

 

12.50  Questions

 

1.00  Lunch

 

2:00  Facilitating enterprise as a career choice.    

Erzsébet Majorovics-Gordon, Individual Support Co-ordinator / Conductor Phoenix Venture Paces, Sheffield.

Nick Palfreyman, Best Practice Manager, Phoenix Venture Paces, Sheffield.

 

2:30  Questions

 

2:40   Leading edge understanding of human potential, education and rehabilitation.

Judit Szathmáry Senior Conductor, Founder / Director, Conductive Education Support Services .

          

3:10  Questions

 

3:10  Refreshments

 

3:30  The Zest of the Legend – Open Forum