It is some four months now since the Conductive Community Forum opened for businessand over that time it has received more that seven thousand visits. At the moment, as far as can be found, this site is the only active discussion forum for Conductive Education on the Internet, in any language.
There have been 21 threads started, out of which more than half have attracted one or more responses. The largest number of responses per thread has been on the topic of conductors‘ salaries. All these threads remain open for further replies, further information, agreements, disagreements. Don’t forget, if you post a new response to any previous topic this will bring it straight back to everybody’s attention to the top of the list.
Four postings have been by centres or individuals announcing jobs for conductors These have come from the United States (2), England and Sweden. Other postings cover a wide range of matters of mainly practical concern to parents, disabled people, conductors and centre-managers. Focus so far has been on Conductive Education for children. More on adults would be welcome.
All of this might be read as very good news but is it? Only if people find plenty to read when hey arrive.
Given the numbers of people involved in Conductive Education around the world, the practical problems that they face, and their valuable experiences and strong opinions, given the questions that everyone has that others might be able to answer, then this discussion forum is remarkably ‘quiet’.
Yes, this forum is ‘active’ but, compared with the level of activity to be seen on general disability sites, new topics are being posted relatively infrequent and the threads that they generate have been fairly short. And though ‘new people’ have come in there are still rather many of the ‘usual suspects’.
These are difficult times and the Conductive Education movement would be the stronger if it could pull together. It cannot do this if it does not communicate. This forum is one way that everyone can contribute. Blogs are an important new factor but not many people will want to become bloggers. Posting on an Internet forum such as this one is a quick and painless way of making your own needs or opinion known.
More than seven-thousand visits in four months: there is already an audience our there! Go to it, make yourself heard.
The more people who contribute to a discussion forum then the more interesting it becomes, and the more people still are like to visit and contribute.
Posts or responses may be made in any language.
You can post under a psudonym if you wish.
Have a go, post something yourself. Respond to something already posted, start your own topic. Get others to do the same. Help Conductive Education express its own ‘wisdom of the crowd’.