Home  | What's on   |  Contact Us  |  Plunket in Cambridge     Play > Support and Education •  All  •  Childcare/Early Learning Centres  •  Churches/ Centres  •  Cinemas  •  Costume Hire  •  Craft Classes  •  Drama/Theatre  •  Entertainment  •  Kindergartens/Playcentres  •  Kohanga Reo  •  Library  •  Museums  •  Music  •  Parks/Playgrounds  •  Party Supplies  •  Playgroups  •  Plunket  •  Sport and recreation  •  Sport Equipment  •  Support and Education  •  Toy Libraries  •  Toys/Furniture   20 Hours Free Early Childhood Education Information   www.teamup.co.nz     Where: Telephone and Online Information   Phone: 0800 20 44 33   Contact: Email: 20Free@teamup.co.nz   Your first step towards 20 hours free early childhood education starts here. Phone to find out how ECE could work for your child and get a Free copy of the ECE Information booklet. To find out more about Early Childhood Education email or visit the website listed above. Autism New Zealand   www.autismnz.org.nz     Where: PO Box 406, Waikato Mail Centre CCS Building, Claudelands Road, Hamilton   Phone: 07 854 9531   Contact: Email: Waikato@autismnz.org.nz   Office Hours Monday - Friday, 9-12pm Contact Autism New Zealand for furthur information on: -Holiday Programs -Support Groups *Little Kids Club Pre School Support Group for children aged 2 - 6. This group is currently running every Monday morning (except public holidays) from 10.30 to 11.30 am. This program teaches behavior management to your child and offers support and advice to parents. Held at the Fairfield Baptist Church, Heaphy Tce, Hamilton. REGISTRATION IS ESSENTIAL - Phone Shelley on (07) 854 9531. T.A.Y.A.G. - Teenage and Young Adult Group runs fortnightly at the "94" Salvation Army Youth Rooms, London Street Hamilton. Aimed at ages 13 - 25. For details of when this is held please phone Felicity on 021 210 6950 or phone Shelley on (07) 854 9531. Cambridge Cricket Association       Where:   Phone: 07 827 7279   Contact: John Makgill   Conductive Education Waikato Trust   www.charities.govt.nz     Where: Cnr. Fairfield Road & Anson Avenue P O Box 12066 Chartwell Square HAMILTON 3248   Phone: 07 855 7013 or Fax: 07 855 7014   Contact: cewaikato@xtra.co.nz   Early Intervention Provider / Early Childhood Education Unit The Principles of Conductive Education: Conductive Education is a learning process: Conductive Education approaches physical disabilities from an educational rather than a medical or paramedical perspective. People who have motor disorders have a problem of learning, which requires education as opposed to a medical condition, which requires treatment. Conductive Education offers a holistic, integrated approach to special education: Conductive Education provides a holistic approach to educating people with motor disorders. The nature of real-life is that at any one time a wide range of skills are being used and developed. We are never doing just one thing; every task involves many elements but for a motor-disabled person these are often very difficult to organise and co-ordinate. This is why Conductive Education pays attention to all areas of development, all aspects of the personality in an integrated manner. It seeks to teach people to address each area without forgetting the others, and learn to co-ordinate them effectively. Active participation is the key for development: In Conductive Education individuals are encouraged to engage in the world around them and actively participate as this is the only way, learning will take place. To achieve active participation, Conductive Education provides the motor disabled person with a wide range of "life-like" but at the same time, achievable activities. Conductive Education seeks to change the person, not the environment: Although some adaptation of equipment is used in Conductive Education, the aim is that eventually the motor disordered person will learn ways of accessing their environment rather than the environment needing to be adapted to cater for their needs. Functional activities provide the tools for learning and teaching: The activities used and situations created in CE will be the same or very similar to those of able-bodied individuals. It is the conductors duty to select these activities carefully, taking the participants age, developmental level, abilities, needs and personal characteristics into account to ensure that success is achievable. Success and enjoyment in these activities will give participants the desire and motivation to participate even more. Eventually the motor disabled person will be able to determine their own goals and possess the motivation to reach them. This is the stage where learning and development will be maximised and participants will reach their full potential.