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Conductive education and the politics of disablement
- Author:
- READ Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(2), April 1998, pp.279-293.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses how conductive education has been characterised by some disabled academics as an intervention that is oppressive to disabled people. This article describes the practice of Conductive Education and its development in the United Kingdom and explores why it came to be perceived by some from within the disabled people's movement as contrary to their interests.