The Rainbow Centre exists primarily to help children with motor impairment learn to overcome their difficulties using a system of learning called Conductive Education.

Motor impairment means difficulty with movements controlled by the central nervous system and the most common cause of this is cerebral palsy.

Cerebral palsy is a condition caused through lack of oxygen to the brain during pregnancy, during the delivery, or after the birth. One in four hundred babies is affected and the condition is not curable, but the difficulties experienced can be overcome in many cases.

Developed over the last 50 years, Conductive Education was only available until 1990 at The Peto Institute in Budapest.

The Rainbow Centre was established in 1990 to provide this special system of learning without the need to travel to Hungary.

Since this time The Rainbow Centre has helped over 300 children from seven of the Southern Counties.

The Centre provides for preschool children, sometimes as young as six months, working comprehensively with them in groups during the week until school age. It also provides a Saturday Club for school-aged children as well as individually tailored sessions in some cases.

The Rainbow Centre is affiliated to SCOPE and is part of the School for Parents Network.

Visit their website here.