About ACENA
photo courtesy of Center for Independence through Conductive Education
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The Association for Conductive Education in North America (ACENA) is the representative of the programs and professionals providing conductive education services within the North American continent. ACENA acknowledges and promotes the practice of conductive education. This is accomplished through:
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Dear ACENA members, and Conductive Education supporters and friends,
The twentieth-century American author Thomas Wolfe coined the term 'you can't go home again', and yet, here I am in 2019 at the helm of ACENA after several years absence. And despite Wolfe, I must say, it's great to be home! From my first interaction with ACENA over a decade now, I felt welcomed by the organization and inspired by its members whose passion and commitment to the conductive education movement was - and remains - unwavering.
I am honoured to follow in the footsteps of conductive education giants, past-Presidents Andrea Benyovszky and Patti Herbst. Thank you for your support, vision and guidance.
Your Board met in Chicago at the end of January to review and update ACENA's Plan of Work which will take us through December 2019. While the plan is very specific, I do want to share some broader perspectives we all should focus on to move CE forward. These include:
These are very broad but I invite to review this year's Plan of Work here for further detail.
We cannot do this work alone. And so I place a challenge before you. I want you to set yourself a professional resolution for 2019: that you will commit to ACENA. And in doing so, I want you to remember that commitment is not a word, it is an action.
Yours in ACENA,
Brent Page
ACENA President
The twentieth-century American author Thomas Wolfe coined the term 'you can't go home again', and yet, here I am in 2019 at the helm of ACENA after several years absence. And despite Wolfe, I must say, it's great to be home! From my first interaction with ACENA over a decade now, I felt welcomed by the organization and inspired by its members whose passion and commitment to the conductive education movement was - and remains - unwavering.
I am honoured to follow in the footsteps of conductive education giants, past-Presidents Andrea Benyovszky and Patti Herbst. Thank you for your support, vision and guidance.
Your Board met in Chicago at the end of January to review and update ACENA's Plan of Work which will take us through December 2019. While the plan is very specific, I do want to share some broader perspectives we all should focus on to move CE forward. These include:
- a bolder development of conductor training modalities that work in the North America setting (it is great news to see the re-launch of the Aquinas College program this Fall!);
- a bolder engagement and cooperation with the global CE community and its associations (Peto, IPA, CEPEG, NZFCE, ECA) to knit the voices of CE together for research, for advocacy, for program development;
- collaboration on made-in-North America CE research initiatives that use our ACENA community CE centres as labs;
- implementation of the common parent satisfaction survey, developed by ACENA members, across all ACENA CE centres, and perhaps its adoption within the larger CE global community;
- delivering the 2019 ACENA Conference (booked for the September 13-15 weekend) in Chicago; and,
- championing ACENA involvement and participation in the 10th World Congress on Conductive Education to be held in May 2020 in Budapest.
These are very broad but I invite to review this year's Plan of Work here for further detail.
We cannot do this work alone. And so I place a challenge before you. I want you to set yourself a professional resolution for 2019: that you will commit to ACENA. And in doing so, I want you to remember that commitment is not a word, it is an action.
Yours in ACENA,
Brent Page
ACENA President
ACENA Honorary Members
Erzsébet Balogh, MD
David Dvorak, PhD
Margy Nelson
**Honorary members are given a lifetime membership. Honorary membership is conferred upon an individual who has performed distinguished service in the field of CE, to be determined by the Executive Committee.**
David Dvorak, PhD
Margy Nelson
**Honorary members are given a lifetime membership. Honorary membership is conferred upon an individual who has performed distinguished service in the field of CE, to be determined by the Executive Committee.**