Over many years, conductive education has developed a set of mediations that are well documented, and applied consistently in their use, resulting in a high level of what is termed 'fidelity to practice' in the United States. CLC emphasizes keeping the teaching and learning methods of conductive education true to the standards and practices of the Andras Peto Faculty, the founding institution of conductive education, and adhere to a high degree of replication.
The Conductive Learning Center keeps individual progress reports for each student that has been served by our organization. These reports include years of detailed, consistent student data and pictures to build evidence-based goals that are personalized for each student. Each new session is driven by data collected in the prior session and is built upon using task series – a pillar of the conductive education method. The task series method can be considered an evidence-based practice (EBP) for conductive education. However, outcomes data typical of a drug/medical study (double blind, placebo based) is something still scarce in the conductive education community.
As mentioned in our meeting last month, CLC is eagerly awaiting the publication of the Conductive Education Evaluation Project (CEEP) by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Michigan State University. CLC and Mary Free Bed partnered with MSU for the study, comparing the impact of conductive education versus traditional physical and occupational therapies. You can learn more about how the study was set up at the link below.
