Event Details

M.A.E.S. Course –  BRAZIL  2025-2026

Course Title:

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

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

 

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.

 

Highlights and Skills You’ll Gain:

  • 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.
  • An understanding of how it is possible to avoid (or delay) a ‘plateau’ effect.
    Act on key mechanisms to improve children’s ability to keep learning and progressing, whilst avoiding (or delaying) a ‘plateau’ effect.
  • Creative, Child-centered Problem-Solving: Explore and develop an extensive repertoire of new treatment strategies to meet the unique needs of each child and adapt as your patients grow.
  • 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 clinical changes and reinforced by positive parental feedback.

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

 

 

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

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

Part ‪1:     8 – 19 December 2025             Live Online       Weeks 1 & 2
Part ‪2:   26 January – 6 February 2026  Face-to-Face    Weeks 3 & 4

Part 1  – Online
Week 1     8 – 12  December
Week 2   15 – 19 December
Each day 12.00 Noon – 8.00pm  Cuiabá time

 Part 2   Cuiabá
Week 3   26 – 30 January 2026
Week 4     2 – 6 February 2026
Each day 08.00am – 16.00 Hrs

Each week is 5 Days,  Monday to Friday.

 

Venue Part 2 :

Cuiabá – venue to be confirmed
Cuiabá is a city on the banks of the River Cuiabá and the capital of the central Brazilian state Mato Grosso.

Course Fee –

Early Bird Fee:

Regular/ Late Registration:

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For further information and for an Application Form, contact:

International Courses Organiser:
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.

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.

 

Course Presenters:

Jean-Pierre Maes  and  M.A.E.S. Team : 

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

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 deeper knowledge and new expert clinical skills for the greater benefit of the patients they treat.

 

 


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.

 

 

M.A.E.S.  ‘ Movement Analysis & Education Strategies’  Therapy

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MAES Therapy is the new gold standard for treating children with Cerebral Palsy and similar neuro-developmental conditions and movement disorders; with more effective long-term outcomes compared to other therapeutic approaches such as Bobath-NDT, Vojta, Medek.