Hello Ivan. Thanks for the offer to mail me a copy of your book. Probably best now if I wait to collect a copy at the Congress. Thanks again.
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Lisa Gombinsky posted
Accessibility at the Congress and Official Events
I am proud to be travelling to Hong Kong for the congress with my good friends Maria and Lindsay Dalmon, both long standing CE participants and advocates, both adults with cerebral palsy who for the most part rely on powered wheelchairs to get around. (Maria will be presenting a paper on her experiences in Conductive Education as an adult, and how it continues to help her and Lindsay - her insight has shaped my practice over the past several year... [read more]
Lisa Gombinsky:
We are getting packed and ready to leave, and are very excited -- we would like to thank the congress organizers and in particular Ivan and Sylvia for literally doing absolutely everything to respond to questions and to solve identified issues around... [read more]
Andrew Sutton:
We are now in the 'post-congress' phase. Thank you so much to SAHK for leaving this social networking site open. I do so hope that others will utilise to and perhaps thereby help shape futute coming-together in Conductive Education. Andrew
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Tue, Jan 31 at 10:05PM
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Claire Cotter posted
Post congress thoughts
I just want to congratulate all the organisers and "behind the scenes" people who made this World Congress such an enjoyable, inspiring and thought provoking experience. The post congress study tour I and my colleagues participated in also provided many insights and experiences that I have learnt from and invoke a sense of humility and excitement for the future. The SAHK team have much to be proud of and I think there is the key : the "team", so ... [read more]
Wed, Jan 5 at 7:23PM
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Norman Perrin posted
Posting World Congress photos to Flickr
I've just noticed I've had an amazing 317 visitors to my blog in last 24 hrs. Could this show world-wide interest in the World Congress? I've had some beginner's tech problems with my "World Congress - Live|" experiment (as you can see at http://bit.ly/h4rsTT ). Lots of people have been taking photos of the World Congress. Can we get the message to them to post their photos on Flickr? As a test, I've just posted 2 photos using the tag "WCCE2010".... [read more]
Ivan Su:
Congress photos taken by SAHK will be uploaded to the Congress website for public download. Congress delegates will be invited to upload their photos as well. Please check 'What's New'.
Tue, Dec 14 at 12:44PM
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Norman Perrin posted
Made it to Hong Kong
So I've left the snows of Sheffield behind - and my family too, sadly. What an enjoyable trip it would have been had my wife, Dru, been able to come. Cleared the drive of snow and got the car out ready on Thursday; dashed Friday morning to pick up, at the third attempt, some HK dollars; took Sarah to respite early as agreed, at 1100h, only to be told they weren't expecting her until 1300h - reluctantly they agreed, so was able to set off in good ... [read more]
Sat, Dec 4 at 10:33PM
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Rony Schenker, posted
A new book about conductive education
I would like to be the first to congratulate Andrew sutton and Gill Maguire for publishing their new book: Internationalising Conductive Education; reports from Recent Advances in Conductive Education. Edited by Andrew Sutton and Gillian Maguire, second in a series of books published by the Conductive Education Press, and an important addition to their growing shelf of books and publications written and/or edited by them.
Mon, Nov 8 at 1:05AM
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Ivan Su
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Claire Cotter
Hello Claire,
Have you enrolled to the China study tour yet?
Among the 4 tours, I strongly recommend the Shanghai one as you can visit both government-run and private-run CE centres in one shot.
Of course, don't miss the permanent pavillions of the 2010 World Expo there.
Tue, Oct 19 at 6:02PM
Ivan Su
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Norman Perrin
Hi Norman,
Thanks for your interest in our work. I'm pleased to inform you that the book you've mentioned will be free for collection at the coming Congress.
Of course, if you want it earlier, I can airmail you a copy now. Please email me your postal address at ivan_syw@sahk1963.org.hk.
Tue, Oct 19 at 5:55PM
Elliot Clifton posted
Wireless Networking
Will free WiFi access be available at WCCE 2010?
Elliot Clifton:
Mr Fong, Thanks for your reply. I have another question regarding laptops. Will it be possible to link my laptop to the projector for my oral presentation? Or will I have to transfer my PowerPoint presentation to the computer in the conference hall? ... [read more]
C F FONG:
Elliot, To avoid any possible problems in connecting different computers with the projector and to ensure smooth running of the program, we are now asking all presenters to submit their powerpoint files by 30 November to the Secretariat. CF
Ivan Su:
Elliot, You don't need your own computer for oral presentation. Delegates will have access to 2 laptops with internet access located in the exhibition and speaker rooms at the Congress venue. Of course, you can use your own laptop for internet access... [read more]
Tue, Oct 19 at 3:18PM
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David Akroyd-Jones posted
wing chun chi-sau development and potential for exercise?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnxiBkFsIx4&feature=more_related The exercise shown on this You tube link is called Chi-Sau, it's like a physical game of chess designed to improve technique, reflex's, energy and positioning. It can be performed standing or seated and at any speed. It's challenging to mind and body and good fun. The style of Chinese matial arts is known as Wing Chun, very popular in Hong Kong. Wing chun Employs several key concepts... [read more]
Tue, Oct 19 at 2:58AM
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Andrew Sutton
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Purdey Lung
Susie,
That's an interesting, a priori way of putting it.
Back in the mid-sixties in London was that CE was 'discovered' by Ester Cotton. She was a physiotherapist and worked in an environment /culture in which motor disorders were construed, perhaps even more than nowadays, very much as a 'physical disability', Whatever her intention, what she did was construed very much from this viewpoint. People just could not see pedagogy and upbringing, nor even her conflatory 'education'. They saw 'therapy'.
Hence their stated wish for corroboration from what they tend to call 'science', actually medical science, or rather a particular evaluatory trend within medical science. They did not turn to pedagogic science (how could they in the English-speaking world!), nor to educational research, nor even to developmental psychology..
Had things developed differently at that time then perhaps this persistent pervasive mind-set might not have been established. Perhaps the American James House's rather different 'discovery' of the work in Budapest, later in the nineteen-sixties, as a spiritual force might have been taken up and elaborated.
Perhaps not. Twenty years later, and for twenty years after that, up to the present date, the same understanding of motor disorders as 'physical' still holds sway, and continues to smother attempts to think and provide developmentally or socially.
I do not think that any other approaches to educate or bring up children have to face such a problem. People would just laugh.
Andrew.
PS This is of course merely my attempt to describe what has happened over the last forty years or so. But you asked 'So why the need to do so with Conductive Education?' You ask about motives. I can only answer with another question, the old forensic one: 'Cui bono?'.
Mon, Oct 18 at 5:26PM
Susie Mallett
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Purdey Lung
Are there other methods of upbringing or of educating children that have been scientifically proven? I tend towards thinking not, (although you will know about this better than I do, Andrew)
So why the need to do so with Conductive Education?
Susie Mallett
Mon, Oct 18 at 5:25AM
Andrew Sutton
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HK SIM cards for phones and dongles, and a provisional Congress programme:
Fri, Oct 15 at 11:52PM
Gillian Maguire
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Does anyone know who the honorary conductors will be? I am very pleased to say that I will be one and would like to know if there are others
Wed, Oct 13 at 2:42AM
Lars Mullback posted
HALLO FROM SWEDEN
We will come to Hongkong 5:th dec. Lookning forward to see you Anette o Lars
Norman Perrin:
Looking forward to meeting up with you both again. Are you planning any video recording of the event? Norman
Wed, Oct 13 at 12:41AM
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Susie Mallett
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Norman Perrin
Hello Norman,
I am very much looking forward to meeting you too. See you in the foyer! Or maybe even at the airport, I leave Amsterdam at about the same time that you leave London!
Fri, Oct 8 at 2:43AM
Norman Perrin
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Susie Mallett
Hi Susie. Seems we have to travel half way round the world to meet up. I'm really looking forward to doing so in Hong Kong.
Thu, Oct 7 at 1:25PM
Norman Perrin posted
Join 8th WCCE from comfort of your own armchair.
Is this the future for the World Congress of Conductive Education? "We hear you! For many of you the cost of purchasing a BlogWorld ticket plus a plane ticket AND hotel room aren’t in your budget. In fact, many who can’t attend are asking if there will be audio or video available from our sessions. The short answer is yes. You can attend BlogWorld, even if you can’t fly out to Las Vegas to do so." "We are now announcing VIRTUAL tickets for sale. ... [read more]
Andrew Sutton:
There's a challenging paradox here. First I have to say the the BlogWorld virtual event will primarily involve bloggers. Bloggers by their very definition communicate. Most people in Conductive Education don't. Not publicly, anyway, Whatever the reas... [read more]
Norman Perrin:
To my rather limited technical understanding (and I am not being modest - my feet like those of the duck paddle away furiously under the water to maintain the serene illusion) the iPad is the interesting technology here. That and iPlayer. The general... [read more]
Thu, Oct 7 at 1:18PM
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Norman Perrin
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Ivan Su
Hello Ivan. Might it be possible for someone to airmail me a copy of the book which you edited: "A collection of papers and articles published by the staff members of SAHK in the past 15 years (from 1994 to 2008)". You must tell me how much that will cost and I will gladly make a payment in any way that you wish. My regards.
Thu, Oct 7 at 5:39AM
Norman Perrin
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Tony Best
Hi Tony. Hong Kong's a long way to travel to do so, but I'm looking forward to meeting up with you and swapping notes on CE, Big Society, and such.
Thu, Oct 7 at 4:41AM
Andrew Sutton posted
Conference staistics and disability access
Preliminary figures indicate that teh Congrss will be big event, plus news of Congress disability access: http://www.conductive-world.info/2010/10/big-one.html
Tue, Oct 5 at 7:53PM
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Andrew Sutton posted
Parents, carers, disabled adults and, yes, children too...
What positive steps might be taken to ensure their fuller representation at any further CE World Congresses, both in the formal programme and amongst participants? Read more at: http://www.conductive-world.info/2010/09/service-users-at-ce-world-congresses.html Andrew.
Wed, Sep 29 at 7:00AM
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Andrew Sutton
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Another posting about this Congress on Conductive World:
Fri, Sep 24 at 7:37AM
Susie Mallett posted
Susie Mallett's Conductive Upbringing and Lifestyle
I have a brand new blog: www.susie-mallett.com My wish is to collect information about upbringing. I am asking every one who reads my blog to consider sending me articles that they have written themselves or have discovered in a magazine, newspaper or book, on any aspect of upbringing. Articles that have perhaps made them pause for thought and therefore may be of interest to others. The blog was launched early this week but was really kicked into... [read more]
Fri, Sep 24 at 6:51AM
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Rony Schenker,
left a note for
Shaul Hochstein
hello shaul,
Good to see you here
Rony
Tue, Sep 14 at 3:14PM
Andrew Sutton posted
Two recent blog items on this Congress:
Over the last few days Conductive World has published two new postings about this Congress: http://www.conductive-world.info/2010/09/coming_3644.html http://www.conductive-world.info/2010/09/stop-start-in-conductive-movement.html
Mon, Sep 6 at 7:38AM
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Susie Mallett posted
Getting down to it
I am, just I expect many others are doing, beginning the preparations for my contribution to the Congress: http://www.susie-mallett.org/2010/09/poster-preview.html
Sat, Sep 4 at 8:54PM
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Susie Mallett posted
Kite flying
In addition to the painting workshops at Hong Kong's art school, I am also very interested in joining a kite-making workshop, or just meeting makers or flier of kites, even just looking at some examples on display or soaring against the wind. http://www.susie-mallett.org/2010/09/kites-rise-highest-against-wind-not.html
Fri, Sep 3 at 2:27AM
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