Conductive Education

The Early Intervention Program at ACHIEVA offers movement education for infants and toddlers in the family home. What the typically developing child learns during the first year of life, the child with a motor disability must learn as a skill. Conductive Education (CE) is a developmental method used to teach everyday life skills to children with motor disabilities.  Parents are fully involved in their child’s education program so that the training can be reinforced.

The CE program includes development of movement, self-care activities and cognitive functions. CE puts special emphasis on improved play skills, early speech development and proper body image. It is a melding of education, gross and fine motor techniques based on the concept that motor control can be learned in the muscles by creating “memory” in those muscles.

Conductive Education should begin as early as possible. Starting Conductive Education before the age of one can prevent poor habits from developing. The CE program is administered by a professional who has intensive, four-year university based “hands on” training. 

“Occupational therapy, speech, conductive therapy and physical therapy have been invaluable,” said one of our parents. “This program enabled Sam to walk which he was previously not able to do.” 

For more about our Conductive Education services, please contact Dr. Lynda Wright at 412-995-5000 ext. 420 or e-mail or click here for a short feature from WPXI.