This information was taken from the Ability Camp web page.
What is Conductive Education?
Conductive Education started in Hungary 60 years ago. Conductive Education helps children and adults with motor disorders learn to overcome problems of movement resulting from disease or damage to the central nervous system. It approaches motor disorders as a problem of learning or relearning - a problem that will respond to the appropriate teaching. If they can move and they can learn, they can learn to move. By repeating tasks and integrating intentional movement with learning, the brain creates alternate pathways to send messages to muscle groups creating the desired movements.
What does Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy do?
At normal air pressure you are absorbing about as much oxygen as you can. Even if you were fed pure oxygen at this pressure you couldn't absorb more oxygen than you would get from normal air. However if the pressure was increased to about twice the pressure difference you would get on an airplane, you could absorb far more oxygen. This extra oxygen is said to increase the level of activity around the brain injury.
Are Conductive Education and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy more effective together?
If Conductive Education is trying to create alternate pathways in the brain and if Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is stimulating those areas, then it might make it easier to create those new pathways. The results aren't just theory, we have seen first hand over and over again. While the results can be good from either one, they are much better together.
How long does it take?
Our children's Conductive Education program is 5 weeks long. Children from 1 to 6 years old spend 5 hours a day, 5 days a week in Conductive education. Children from 7 to 14 years old spend 6 hours a day 5 days a week on Conductive Education. The 40 Hyperbaric sessions are one a day on weekdays and 2 a day on weekends, spread out over the same 5 weeks.