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In SAHK, our staff establishment has put allied health and educational professionals in an irreplaceable role in helping our service users with a wide spectrum of life-long disabilities. To make the most from these specialists, a creative approach was needed to bring them into the system and stretch their reach to the core needs of our clients. This was where Conductive Education (CE) came in two decades ago.
CE is not some big new rehabilitation or educational theory. It is a way to answer a vital question: how can we help people with central nervous system involvement to consolidate the fragmented gains obtained from different disciplines?
As our establishment does not have conductor1 , CE in SAHK is about giving the multidisciplinary specialists a common platform and perspective to apply their expertise in new ways, making it possible to manage the core issues of their clients.
We request our entire staff team to embrace CE at both philosophical and operational levels. To cater for the needs of our wide spectrum of clients, SAHK’s great skill has been in procuring and integrating appropriate intervention strategies and making it compatible with the philosophy and operation of CE. In essence, CE is an upbringing philosophy focuses on an education of will for cultivating positive and health personality traits. With the facilitator-client bond fosters into a healing and learning partnership, the latter is motivated by caring heart and respect, and imbued with a ‘will’ to succeed and advance.
SAHK has established both life-wide and life-long infrastructures to strengthen the personality development of its service users. We support lifewide learning in major life domains across a whole day to ‘unlock’ their potentials for interacting with the environment, experiencing success and developing self-worth. We create life-long learning opportunities upon an extended route of upward mobility for promoting self-actualization. It is the establishment of trivial yet meaningful and successful achievements that is linked to a subjective perception of well-being.
CE contributes to fundamentals for sustainable growth among service users by following the human principles in evolution. There are two inextricable aspects of human nature: body and mind. Body allows us to act on physical environment via walking on feet and making tools by hands; and to interact with social environment via highly articulated speech. Mind emerged from internalization of speech and escalated our culture into civilization in which activities of daily living became an integral function of our body. The mind-body strategies, founded on the interdependency of body, speech and mind, are embedded in group task series, individual daily routine and socialization.
Incorporating different intervention strategies into the CE framework is an area that SAHK will devote its resources and energy in our quest for world class rehabilitation.
1 Specially-trained professionals who deliver CE. |