Event Details

Course Title:  

‘Movement Analysis & Education Strategies for the Treatment of Children with Cerebral Palsy and similar neurodevelopmental conditions’

Format:  4-Week Hybrid Course  (2-Weeks Online  &  2-Weeks Face-to-Face)

A specialist and evidence-based course for Paediatric Therapists (PT, OT, SLT) who want to do more in terms of therapy for children with Cerebral Palsy and similar neurodevelopmental conditions.  Gain new knowledge which will take you and the children you treat on a new journey, pushing the boundaries of what we currently understand of the reported plateaus.

M.A.E.S. Therapy redefines CP treatment by focusing on the brain’s role in development, helping you go beyond managing symptoms to achieve meaningful, long-term progress for each child.  A new and different dimension to the treatment and management of children with CP.

If we want to get different outcomes, we need to think and treat differently.

Become an Expert:  Following successful completion of this course, therapists will understand how to provide an expert ‘hands-on’ treatment, individualised to each child, based upon the specific injury to their brain, rather than just being based upon ‘type’.

MAES Therapy promotes the development of skills in terms of mobility, hand function, constructive play, interaction and communication, for each child with Cerebral Palsy.

Unique of its kind, this course has a strong emphasis on high-level observation, analysis and clinical skills. 

 

For photos of the first M.A.E.S. Therapy Foundation Course to be held in India, see:
 https://maestherapy.com/maes-course-in-india-a-great-success/

Highlights and Skills You’ll Gain:

  • Dynamic Treatment Techniques: Learn advanced methods to avoid or delay treatment plateaus and adapt as your patients grow.
  • Target the brain – Focus on the neurological origins, not just the symptoms, bringing a new depth to your therapy approach.
  • Advanced Observation & Analysis: Build high-level observational skills and gain new insights for more precise and impactful assessments.
  • Creative, Child-centered Problem-Solving: Develop an extensive repertoire of new treatment strategies to meet the unique needs of each child.
  • Effective Parent Communication: Gain new ways to inform and guide parents, ensuring continuity of care at home.

 

Course Outcomes:

Upon completion, you will understand the brain in a new way and how the brain responds and evolves following the initial lesion for children with Cerebral Palsy and similar neurodevelopmental conditions.

You’ll be able to deliver targeted, holistic and personalised therapy that supports long-term skill development in mobility, hand function, constructive play, interaction, and communication.

Move beyond generic approaches and one-size-fits-all treatments, and create lasting, positive change in each child’s life, evidenced by immediate clinical changes and reinforced by positive parental feedback.

 

Length of Course:    4-Week ( 20 Days) Postgraduate course, in two parts of two weeks.

 

Dates:

Part 1:   5 – 16 January 2026
Part 2:   21 February – 7 March 2026

Part 1:
Week 1   Monday 5 January – Friday 9 January 2026    Online
Week 2   Monday 12 January – Friday 16 January 2026 Online

Each Day:  1.30pm – 9.30pm Bengaluru time 

Part 2:
Week 3   Saturday 21 February – Wednesday 25 February 2026  Face-to- Face
Week 4   Tuesday 3 March – Saturday 7 March 2026    Face-to-Face

Each Day  08.00am – 4.00pm

 

Venue Part 2   –  Bengaluru    –  Venue to be advised

Course Participants:    up to 16 max. only   A highly personal course with international experts.

 

Course Fee:

  • Early Bird Fee:    £ 2,950.00  GBP      Early Bird discount ends 20 August 2025
  • Regular Fee:         £3,175.00  GBP         Regular Registration full amount due by 30 September 2025
  • 5% Discount per participant for any two colleagues from the same workplace that register together.

Apply:

For further information and for an Application Form, contact:

Joshua Samuel Rajkumar, MPT   |   Local Course Organiser

E:  joshphysiotherapist@yahoo.com    M: +917406736141|

OR

Jonathan Salsbury MIoD  Development Manager,  MAES Therapy International

E:   jsalsbury@maestherapy.com

 

 

Course Participant’s Criteria:

Participants must be experienced Paediatric Therapists (Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists,  Speech Therapists) or medical Doctors (paediatricians, neurologists), with at least two years’ experience in treating children with Cerebral Palsy and similar neurological conditions.

The course will appeal to therapists who are about to take their first postgraduate cerebral palsy physiotherapy course, as well as to very experienced therapists who have already taken several specialist courses.

Course Format:

Presented at post-graduate level, this certified CP paediatrics course is very ‘hands-on’. The format will include theoretical lectures, treatment demonstrations, workshops, case presentations and supervised daily practical sessions with patients during weeks 3 and 4.

Unique of its kind, this neurodevelopmental course has a strong emphasis on high-level observation, analysis and clinical skills. There is an unusually high level of supervised practical sessions (almost 50% of time), with a wide variety of case presentations, giving depth and breadth to the learning experience.

The course is specially designed to give participants time to translate theory into clinical practice and become expert in handling and managing their clients with neuro-developmental conditions.

 

 

Course Aims:

This course aims to:

  • Provide a ‘Framework’ for an effective assessment and better understanding of the challenges and needs of children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) and similar neurodevelopmental conditions
  • Gain expertise in analysis of coordination and effective and structured clinical reasoning skills.
  • Analyse Tasks in term of fine and gross motor, sensory, perceptual, biomechanical and cognitive components.
  • Relate the quality of execution of given tasks to the specific skills that the child has been able to develop and use to accomplish these tasks.
  • Predict motor behaviour (prognosis) based upon an in-depth analysis of typical presentations associated to spastic hypertonia, dyskinetic CP, ataxia, hypotonia and CP associated with preterm birth.
  • Understand the short and long-term consequences for the child to engage in complex activities, when the skills available are missing and consequently for therapists to establish priorities and short and long-term treatment plans to change the child’s natural course of development.
  • Develop high-level problem-solving skills to provide each child with specific sensory-motor experiences to make best use of their own potential for improvement.
  • Prioritise and identify which specific skills a child is missing and that need to be promoted and at the same time discouraging the compensatory strategies this child is over-relying upon and which prevents the development of more advanced skills.
  • Expand creative thinking and develop an extensive repertoire of treatment strategies and skills, which can then be applied more confidently in a range of situations to enable the child to learn new ways that he would have difficulty or not be able to develop on his own.
  • Effectively inform and guide parents during treatment sessions, including the use of toys for play and advise them how to best interact with their child during activities of daily living in a home environment.

Development of clinical skills:

Throughout the 4 weeks Therapists will have:

20 x  Practical Sessions with 1 child being treated by 2 or 3 therapists.

Therapists generally work in pairs with 1 child at a time and throughout the course they have a variety of children with different presentations of Cerebral Palsy.

20 x Treatment Workshops ( Therapists’ live Case Presentations )

There will be a total of around 20 – 30 different children with Cerebral Palsy to treat during Part 2,  allowing a high level of supervised practical sessions, allowing participants to link theory into practice and become expert in analysis and handling.

Course Presenters :

Jean-Pierre Maes MCSP  Consultant Neuro-Developmental Physiotherapist
Founder & Director MAES Therapy International

and  M.A.E.S. Team

Jean-Pierre is an expert in the field of Cerebral Palsy and similar neuro-developmental conditions, with over 35 years’ experience of treating babies, children and adults.

He was a Senior NDT- Bobath Tutor – one of the most experienced and influential international Senior Tutors and regular Course Leaders.

However, Jean-Pierre wanted to progress and improve the treatment of children further and so he decided to leave NDT-Bobath and now practices and teaches the pioneering M.A.E.S. Therapy Approach.

Due to demand, he now leads M.A.E.S. Courses world-wide, teaching the advanced MAES Therapy Approach for paediatric therapists who want to specialise, or to further specialise, in the treatment of children with CP and similar neurodevelopmental conditions and who want to gain new knowledge and expert clinical skills.

M.A.E.S. Therapy is a pioneering evidence-based approach, underpinned by practice evidence, patient evidence and contextual evidence from 35 years’ expert clinical and teaching experience world-wide and focusing on excellent treatment skills.

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