A new child’s significant impairments are only half the story for a family. Here is a letter to parents (and hoping practitioners will read it too)

- you have a chance to get to know your baby and carry on with everyday life without too many people getting in the way -

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Of course, the baby or infant needs all available support to help her or him survive, to stay as healthy as possible, to remain pain free and to have the best p

Read more: A new child’s significant impairments are only half the story for a family. Here is a letter to parents (and hoping practitioners will read it too)

Editorial: Families whose baby or infant has significant challenges to development and learning are a severely oppressed minority group. Part 3: Can local task forces be a way forward?

local task forces will get effective support, inclusion and connectivity built into the local early support system

I have argued so far in this short 3-part series that we cannot rely on government ministers or public service executives creating the conditions to lessen or end this oppression. Good

Read more: Editorial: Families whose baby or infant has significant challenges to development and learning are a severely oppressed minority group. Part 3: Can local task forces be a way forward?

Interconnections argues children’s visits to hospital for therapy should be reduced as much as possible. Why is that?

Paediatric therapy is a strange phenomenon that I have never seen a good definition of

Editorial: First of all, I am thinking about babies and pre-school children who have sensory and/or physical impairments that have a negative impact on their development and learning. Some of these children will h

Read more: Interconnections argues children’s visits to hospital for therapy should be reduced as much as possible. Why is that?

Principles of international early child and family support – do they fit your situation? How would you modify them?

‘Action plans...are designed to reduce the child and family’s exhaustion and stress as much as possible’

Peter Limbrick writes: I hope that one day soon there will be an early child and family support system in every part of every country for families whose baby or infant has significant challenges

Read more: Principles of international early child and family support – do they fit your situation? How would you modify them?

Editorial: Families whose baby or infant has significant challenges to development and learning are a severely oppressed minority group. Part 2: Some reasons why

Parents’ tiredness, low self-esteem and stress might result in them keeping themselves to themselves

In the first part of this editorial I suggested there are two separate worlds:

  • the smaller one with families whose baby or infant has significant challenges to development and learning and the peopl

Read more: Editorial: Families whose baby or infant has significant challenges to development and learning are a severely oppressed minority group. Part 2: Some reasons why

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