INFOGRAPHIC: What Is Inflammation? And Why Does It Matter for Child Development?

Inflammation is a critical part of our immune system's stress response

- but what exactly is inflammation and what happens when it's persistent and ongoing? How does it impact child development?

This infographic from Center on the Developing Chilod addresses these questions and provides steps

Positive environments for early child and family support. Part 5: Early child and family support is often wrongly treated as a health issue

Introduction to the series

In the first part of this serialised essay I suggested hospital and clinics are not favourable environments to promote education/learning in babies and young children who have conditions that affect their development and learning in the long term. I characterised these med

Positive environments for early child and family support. Part 3: Implications for early child and family support that is hospital-based

Introduction to the series

In this serialised essay I want to explore positive and favourable environments for providing early child and family support when babies and young children have conditions that potentially reduce their capacity for development and learning.

In the first parts I will

‘They are making people worse’: The scandal of imprisoning patients with autism – about UK NHS

---- 'new incarceration units are being built' ----

Ian Birrell is a true champion for people with autism. What a pity UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is not. Ian, a journalist, has recently written an article in i newspaper on 13^th July 2020. Ian starts his article:

“It is almost two years since

Positive environments for early child and family support. Part 6: contrasting a therapy approach with an educational approach to the early skill of moving on the floor

Introduction to the series

Positive environments for early child and family support. Part 4: A personal perspective on collaboration between health and education workers

Introduction

In the first parts I will contrast the busy a

Positive environments for early child and family support. Part 2: Favourable environments for education and learning

‘a quiet, calm and safe space...Here children can focus, concentrate, absorb information, reflect, create and acquire new skills’

Introduction to the series

In this serialised essay I want to explore positive and favourable environments for providing early child and family support when babies and

Positive environments for early child and family support. Part 1: Hospitals are often neurotic environments and are therefore to be avoided

‘general hospitals I have experience of offer a rich daily mix of potential stressors with various degrees of mental disturbance, conflict, anxiety and fears’

Introduction

In this serialised essay I want to explore positive and favourable environments for providing early child and family support wh

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