Conductive Education Q & A
With our Summer 1999 newsletter, CPAC began offering an opportunity to have your CE questions answered. If you have a question, please write or e-mail us.
How can I help CPAC achieve its mission?
Why Doesn’t Insurance Cover CE?
Q: Conductive Education originated in Budapest, Hungary at the Peto Institute . Should I take my disabled child to participate in CE at Peto?
A: Good question. It is hard to beat conductive education offered at the source.
Many families who participate in our local programs have been to the Peto, too. But the journey abroad requires too much planning, and it can be very expensive. CPAC was founded to bring CE to the U.S. CE programs at Peto offer larger classrooms and decades of experience. Their success is our guiding star.
That is why CPAC hires Peto-trained conductors, models its programs on the Peto experience, and works closely with the Peto whenever possible to further the case of CE in the United States. So the best answer is “maybe.” If you are interested in taking your child to Budapest to attend Peto’s International School, we recommend that you visit a CE program like ours first and have your child assessed. We can put you in touch with parents who have been to the Peto.
Q: How can I help CPAC achieve its mission?
A: Thanks for asking! We can use the help. CPAC is in need of support in a variety of ways. You can make a donation, lend a hand or both. We need volunteers to help with program services, office administration, special event planning and fund raising. If you can help, don’t delay, call today!! Thank You!
Q: What is Conductive Education?
A: Conductive education, or CE, is a complex, integrated program of developmental learning (physical, social, emotional, and academic) for children with motor disorders caused by damage to the central nervous system. The most common applications are for children with motor disorders like cerebral palsy.
Q: Why Doesn’t Insurance Cover CE?
A: That’s a great question. Getting insurance coverage for conductive education (CE) is critical to its long-term survival in this country.
We are interested in starting to coordinate an effort with other CE organizations and parents to present research and make financial arguments as to why CE is so effective for our children. If an insurance company is willing, for example, to provide $5,000 per year in physical therapy coverage for a child, why not let the parent(s) use that money toward CE? After all, every $5,000 could buy many more hours of CE than physical therapy for a child. And shouldn’t the choice be up to the parent, not the insurance company?
