ACERS Inc.

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ACERSI is a non-profit agency which provides Conductive Education and support services to individuals with motor disabilities and their families.
Our organization was established in 1996 by parents and a conductor for the purpose of providing and promoting Conductive Education in New Jersey and in the surrounding areas.
Our goal is to support individuals with neuromuscular disorders to reach their maximum potential by providing Conductive Education and other, related services for them and for their families.
Our Group
ACERSI is a Conductive Education program * Conductive education is a system of learning developed by the Hungarian physician Professor Andras Peto in Budapest, Hungary. * Conductive education was initially developed for the needs of children with cerebral palsy. * Conductive education in its fullest form is a unified system of rehabilitation for people with neurological disorders such as cerebral palsy, Parkinsons disease multiple sclerosis and those who have suffered strokes or head injuries. * Conductive education is a system in its own right. It is not a composite or amalgamation. It is a system of learning that has been developed with groups of individuals with motor disorders. * Conductive education is a learning process, not a treatment or therapy * Conductive education is a partnership between the educator (the Conductor) and learners to create circumstances for learning. * Conductive education is an all day all life on going learning process. * Conductive education approaches problems of movement as problems of learning. * Conductive education can be directed towards all age groups. * Conductive education for Children should start as early as possible. Many centres have parent and baby groups. * Conductive education involves all that can be expected from a childs relevant age group. * Conductive education teaches children and adults to achieve what they want and the motivation to find their own way of doing so. * Conductive education enables the child to work in an integrated way with others with similar but often different problems. * Conductive education embraces learning and development of movement, speech and mental ability simultaneously, not separately or consecutively. * Conductive education is based on the theory that the motor disabled child develops and learns in the same way as their peers. * Conductive education is not a miracle cure. It needs a concentrated effort over a period of time to enable the participants to achieve recognised goals directed by task analysis. * Conductive education is a positive concept that looks for ways in which the individual can develop purposeful movement. It does not have a negative approach where complicated aids and equipment are used to facilitate motor control and stability. * Conductive education uses only simple well-designed, good quality furniture and equipment. * Conductive education has now become established in countries all round the world. * Conductive education has FIVE main elements to facilitate the process. ..