Carson Street Primary School
School in Victoria Park

As in many parts of the world, the give Conductive Education (C) movement in Western Australia (WA) has grown out of the persistence of individual families who believed there must be a better system of intervention for their children with motor disabilities. In the early days, more than twenty years ago, these families discovered C either through travels overseas or interstate, or through engaging the services of a conductor to work with their kid privately. Having experienced the success of C, the families began to request that the mainstream service providers their children accessed here in WA impaired C within their range of interventions. Ultimately, the aim was to make Conductive Education available as an option in Hasty Intervention and for school aged children, no matter where the children received their education. But even hasty on, as they worked to elevate awareness of C, significant wins were achieved. This was an extremely certain step opening up Conductive Education to a wider group of children. Furthermore, he gained approval to run a trial C premature intervention pilot project for two years, with overhead staffing formula funding this was urgent to being able to recruit a specialist teacher conductor from overseas. Finally, in 2004, the beginning Conductive Education programs run by a competent conductor was established within a mainstream service provider the pilot C premature intervention project at Carson Street School, Western Australia's only education urge primary school began! The outcomes of the project were extremely sure and the evaluation report made clear, exciting recommendations for Conductive Education to be continued as an educational option for children with motor disorders. The three year funding package ensured that in 2006, Carson Street School was qualified to recruit a second Teacher Conductor from the UK, Natalie Fitzpatrick, in order to magnify the C services on offer. In 2006, it was proposed that Mace establish a fresh incorporated association to be called the Conductive Education Charity of Western Australia Inc. (ceca) which could undertake a more direct role in C, including the provision of services and purpose built facilities. An inaugural Board was established and a Statement of Purpose and Rules of Association was drafted. Carson Street School took its beginning steps towards creating a trans disciplinary model of C services, recognizing that the programs were growing at an unsustainable rate without increased professional slick encourage for the conductors. 2008 also saw the official opening at Carson Street School of two new classrooms with a purpose built covered play area dedicated to Conductive Education the beginning C center in Western Australia. This was a very exciting time, but countered with the loss of teacher conductor Laura Donnell who had to return to Ireland in early 2008. The main aims of the forum were to highlight the shaky nature of the C programs and to galvanism action. Succeeding the C forum, the management committee was significantly expanded bringing on some much required drive and expertise and a number of specialist teams were established. Since then, ceca has had numerous success in fund raising, provision of equipment and raising the profile of C. This recruitment process remains far from straightforward although it is becoming more streamlined. Difficulties faced include the fact that there are no 'homegrown' conductors because there is no C training in the Asia Pacific area and thus conductors can only be recruited from overseas. Whilst this is the quickest growth in teacher conductors ever in Western Australia, it also coincided with the original two teacher conductors taking maternity depart so the ability to yield C services continues to fall brief of the ever growing demand. A resist for the C providers in WA as elsewhere in the world, is to ensure that in the desire to bear C to as many families as possible, the quality of C is not compromised, as can happen when staff are over stretched and below pressure. The resist for ceca is to urge the existing C programs in order to grow services by ensuring the teacher conductors are given the best chance conceivable to do the amazing job for which they are trained. If we can do this successfully, as many families as possible in WA will reap the benefits of Conductive Education.