You Say Educational. I Say Therapeutic.

You probably shouldn’t beat yourself up too much if you’ve erroneously lumped (1) Conductive Education and (2) MOVE [ Mobility Opportunities Via Education ] together with (3) the so-called “suit” method. Why? Because, although (1) and (2) are education methods and (3) is an intensive therapy method, there are still some significant common grounds*. 

Each of the three methods, for example:

• is founded on faith in the power of our amazing brains to CHANGE as a direct result of experience
• emphasizes REPEATING MOVEMENTS, in general, and providing MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO PRACTICE FUNCTIONAL SKILLS like kneeling, sitting and standing, in particular
• has its own characteristic way of keeping the body in CORRECT ALIGNMENT during activities
• strives to DECREASE UNWANTED REFLEXES
• has an INTENSIVE component, i.e., incorporates some element meant to heighten or amplify the student’s or patient’s experience for purposes of driving motor skill acquisition 

*based on stuff I’ve informally gathered.