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Judit Varadi - Head Conductor

Let me introduce myself: My name is Judit Varadi and I was born in Szentes (Hungary) in 1981. I grew up in a little village living with my family till I completed school at 18. I then went to the International Peto Institute in Budapest spending the year in a Spina Bifida Group where I also had the opportunity to work with 3-7 year olds with athetosis, tetraparesis spastica. I worked in the Integration Group for Children, School of Parents, Baby Group spending the next year at the Elementary School for 7-12 year olds with tetraparesis spastica, quadriplegia, diplegia, athetosis. I also spent about a half year with adults who had strokes, MS, Parkinson's and Hemiplegia.

I successfully completed my final exams at the Peto Institute in June 2005. Two days later I flew to America and started my first conductive job as a Leader Conductor in Louisiana. I spent the rest of the year with short term jobs such as Summer camp for 5 kids in New Orleans, Autumn camp in Conway (Arkansas), volunteer in a Summer camp in Atlanta and working for a New Orleans family as a private Conductor to their son.

After arriving back in Hungary, I started to work for a company called Moira for the remainder of 2006. This company organizes, leads and runs CE programmes in Hungary and other countries. I went to Spain and Norway and it was a great experience because over this time I worked with about 20 experienced conductors. I worked in France as a private Conductor in July 2006 and Aug 2007 and then in England for another 1 month with the same child.

In the end of 2006 my partner Richard and I moved to Komárom-Hungary and I completed a course with the GEKKO Early Childhood Education Centre working as a Special Teacher from the end of 2006 until July 2007. I worked with 0-14 year old children with developmental delay, learning difficulties such as displexia, disgraphia, poor fine motor skills balance problems and every other development disorder. I planned and lead childrens pre-school sessions before they started their first school year. In July 2007 Richard and I were married and two months later we came to New Zealand and started to work for the Southland Centre for Conductive Education. From April 2008 I am working as the Head conductor leading programmes and writing reports for the kids. We enjoy travelling and tramping around New Zealand and I also like swimming, rowing, driving and reading - my job is also something I really enjoy.

I was born in Kszeg (Hungary) near the Austrian border. After high school, I graduated from the Peto Institute, Budapest in 2000 and worked for 7 years in Germany. I started working in Hanover with babies, kindergarten and school kids plus summer camp, individual programs for adults, rehab for kids after op's too. From Jan 2003 I worked for a family for 3 months as a private conductor (4 year old boy with quadriplegia). In the summer holidays I worked for 6 weeks in Hanover again.

In August 2003 I was in a family again as a private conductor (a big challenge for me, the doctors said the 11 year old girl was in a persistent vegetative state). In September I worked in Munich, running a CE class for school age children (after school program).

From Nov 2003 to Aug 2007 I was in Weimar as a conductor-group leader. I completed a 2 year program at the University doing research with Prof. Dr. Karin Weber on Conductive Education in integrative kindergarten. My work was documentation of the CE program for state officials, consultations with doctors, OTs and Pts, Presentations about CE and the development of the children too.

I have additional training in several areas with CE seminars 1-2x a year in Germany and Hungary including: -Preparing children for life, Introduction of quality requirements -catalogue, implementation in practice (for the kindergartens in Germany). Implementation in Practice, Cerebral seizures- Epilepsy, Basics of conversation conducting for teachers: - Basics of communication and conversations, - Leading a conversation in conflict situations. Motivating parents. - Behaviour disorders in children and therapy of behaviour disorders. International forums for children orthopaedists: Conservatives and operatives-therapy management of the feet in infancy.

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