ABSTRACT
Dissatisfaction with both the quality and frequency of health care and the patchy nature of educational provision appears to be the impetus behind experimenting with conductive education. Families moved house temporarily to enable their child to attend and visitors from abroad came specifically to assess the benefits of the approach for their child. Interviews with the director indicated her need for support and for some separation between management and professional decisions to be made. These dilemmas are frequently encountered in growing private organisations with mixed loyalties. Vestiges of conductive education are evident in many other provisions for children with motor disorders. A complicating factor was that the conductive education centre in north London was considered to be heretical by proponents of ‘pure’ conductive education at the Birmingham and Peto Institutes. Most families found adapting their life styles to run along the lines of conductive education both disruptive and unacceptable.
