SOUTH-EAST ASIA
Conductors,
parents, don't miss this boat
At
the end of last month Google Alerts announced the first entries to the newly published
website of GAPS (an acronym for the Malay words meaning Alliance for
Children with Cerebral Palsy). The Alliance was established last year
by an enthusiastic group of parents and supporters.
Since
its inception, GAPS (good English acronym, that) has organised
workshops like Augmentative and Alternative Communication and
Disability Equality Training to educate members and the public on
disability issues, and promote social inclusion and awareness at the
same time. It further strategic plans include sports and inclusion,
awareness, education and support, tools and assistive devices – and
Conductive Education –
GAPS
provides a platform of holistic support and actively promotes the
concept of Conductive
Education which
has proven beneficial for children with cerebral palsy. The long-term
goal of GAPS is to establish a one-stop centre for the intervention,
education, rehabilitation, care and research and development for
cerebral palsy.
Click the live link in the paragraph quoted here, and compare addresses, for the reason for this special advocacy of CE, and the aspiration for a one-stop centre, to become clear.
And why not? All power to their elbows. It is surprising that relatively few CE centres round the world have followed the strategy of creating a one-stop centre within a one-stop voluntary organisation.
And why not? All power to their elbows. It is surprising that relatively few CE centres round the world have followed the strategy of creating a one-stop centre within a one-stop voluntary organisation.
South-East
Asia
Perhaps
it is a major advantage to be among the fast-developing,
technologically sophisticated societies of South East Asia, still
largely virgin territory in the development of services for
motor-disordered children and adults, and their families, Perhaps it
also helps to be centred in Kuala
Lumpur,
one of the world great modern cities – with the attitudes that go
with this. Certainly it is a priceless advantage not to be hidebound,
ossified ways of doing and thinking...
The
West has to recognise that it is not just 'China' that is catching up
and overtaking it technically and economically. The often dynamic and
highly capable societies of South-East Asia are following fast
behind. Malaysia has a population of some thirty million – but over
six-hundred million people live in the countries of South-East Asia
as a whole*, with English as a major common language. By way of
comparison, the US has a population of 321 million, and the EU's
(present) population is 510 million.
So
far,
as alluded to above, there is presently one CE service up and running
in South-East Asia, Step and Smile in Kuala
Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.
So,
at a time of economic shortage and professional competition for
resources in CE's 'old countries', enterprising people in Conductive
Education have a window of opportunity to offer their wares to
open-minded and internationally oriented societies in often
paradisiacal settings – before the competition moves in with its
closed shops and its established, antithetical theories, models,
practices and services.
Young
people of Conductive Education, when considering your options to
develop and extent your practice in new, virgin territories,
seriously consider going East,
specifically South East...
Internet
resources, to date...
GAPS
(Gabungan Anak-Anak Palsi Serebrum)
Step
and Smile
Facebook
A
video
____
*
Vietnam,
Laos,
Cambodia,
Thailand,
Myanmar
(Burma),
Malaysia, Singapore,
Indonesia, Philippines,
East
Timor,
Brunei,
Cocos
(Keeling) Islands,
Christmas
Island.
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