According to the International Peto Institute in Budapest, Hungary:

Conductive education is a specially integrated management of learning and educational processes of the motor disordered. Its essence is in the complex development of the personality based on an active learning process. The objective of conductive education is not to directly change a certain disability but to integrate and co-ordinate various functions.

This program does not require special machines, instruments and auxiliary aids with advanced technology. The principle is that it is not the environment that has to be changed but the motor disordered person needs to adapt to the environment.

Conductive education is not the ‘sole miraculous answer’ for the motor disordered. Patients lacking limbs or having muscular or bone diseases have to choose other methods, just like those who have myopathies, progressive neurological diseases or very serious intelligence deficits. Patients suffering from autism or Rhett’s syndrome do not benefit from conductive education either. Nevertheless, it is a proven fact that at least one third of the motor disordered with damage to the central nervous system develop better with the help of conductive education than by any other method. The earlier a child receives conductive education, the better chance he or she has for improvement.

(2008, June 9). The Principle and Aim of Conductive Education . Retrieved July 22, 2008, from Peto institute Web site: http://www.peto.hu/peto_en/