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TANULMÁNYOK — ARTICLES - FORRAI, Judit: History of a Special Healing Method for Motor-disordered Children: Conductive Education - A mozgásszervi betegségben szenvedő gyermekek egyik sajátos gyógymódja, a konduktív nevelés története
The Pető heritage It would be possible to define Pető's special method from the point of view of an educational and therapeutical system, but now we will simply look at it from the patient's point of view, starting to approach the Pető heritage from a 'dry' medical notebook: Pista (Steven) can sit. Pista eats on his own. Pista gets undressed on his own. He gets dressed on his own. He has read his first book. "Be faithful unto death " 7S . He holds a pencil. He starts enunciating clearly. He takes two steps holding on to chairs. He connects marked-out points on paper. He marks out the points on his own and connects them. He draws lines without the points. The first letters. He takes his first step on his own. Ten steps on his own. He made a motor ...he wants to be a mechanical engineer. He finished class five with outstanding results. And between the notes there were of course months and years. And how much effort from the conductors, care, science and love. 76 We could say: this is Pető's life-work, which speaks for itself. Today it is international public property, but the fact that it has been kept and developed is due to Pető's excellent colleagues, who all, without exception, did their work in their fields conscientiously and with a sense of vocation, and above all kept Pető's spirit alive. Pető's life work grew to its full proportions, and became an international treasure with 29 institutes all over the world. Experts in conductive education and other fields contribute more and more to it as science develops. JUDIT FORRAI, MD, PhD lecturer Semmelweis University, Research Unit History of Medicine Institute for Public Health. H-1089 Budapest, Nagyvárad tér 4. HUNGARY email: forjud@net.sote.hu Móricz, Zsigmond: Légy hű mindhalálig. Bp., Corvina, 1962. Népszabadság, 23. December, 1963.
