tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post8552667726699149343..comments2012-01-30T08:52:31.760+01:00Susie Malletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134263396254528737noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post-59329534662996493692012-01-30T08:52:31.760+01:002012-01-30T08:52:31.760+01:00Susie,<br /><br />Yes, as you quote this it sounds so dualistic. The phrase &#39;use their bodies&#39; does suggest a way of thinking implying something like that, on the one hand, there are people (minds/souls) and, on the other, their bodies. <br /><br />But if one is &#39;holistic&#39; (as they say) then people and their bodies are one, irreduceably so.<br /><br />As you say, Mária Hári used to talk about &#39;integration&#39; (nothing to do with inclusion!). To her this word meant the successful blending of all aspects of the human being into a harmonious, integrated whole. I think that you are saying much the same thing from a different direction. <br /><br />Mária Hári also used the word &#39;co-ordination&#39; to mean much the same (not the same as motor-coordination at all). <br /><br />Conductive Education acts to integrate of the developing personality (ensuring that it is coordinated) bu means of appropriately structured pedagogy and upbringing.<br /><br />I agree with you that in the old terminology of conductive movement therapy this is probably what András Pető meant by Heilung. <br /><br />This is all fundamental to what is meant by &#39;orthofunctional&#39; Disharmonious, unintegrated, uncoordinated development is &#39;dysfunction&#39;. In the jargon of developmental psychology, dysfunction is &#39;dysontogenesis&#39;. L. S. Vygotskii expressed this nicely by the analogy of a &#39;dislocation of development&#39;, requiring resetting by means of special pedagogy. More nicely still he called it a &#39;derailment of development – presumably needing the engine of development to beput back on track! (I shudder to recall the jargon that I myself have resorted to in order to articulate this simple notion!).<br /><br />The phrase &#39;use their bodies&#39; is a step along the way. I know, I have too laboriously trodden that way myself. It is not of course only in the little worlds of Conductive Education or even &#39;physical disability&#39; that these considerations apply, and people may find the basically simple notion so hard to grasp and articulate. Oh, that the personal formulations that you and others in our sector arrive at might spread out and down sufficiently to touch all who turn their minds to human developmental disorders.<br /><br />Andrew.andrewhttp://www.conductive-world.infonoreply@blogger.com