Peter Limbrick writes: When a baby is born with disabilities, whether physical, intellectual or sensory, or with a multifaceted condition, there are many factors threatening the mental health of the baby, mother, father and other close family members.
These risks to mental health begin in hospita
Read more: The mental health of disabled infants and their mothers. Does this interest you?
Do you have ideas for protecting and promoting the mental health of babies and infants with disabilities?
Are you concerned for the mental wellbeing of the mother and other close family members?
If you have knowledge and skills in this important work please get in touch
Peter Limbrick
Interconnect
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Peter Limbrick writes: In every country there are teenagers with physical, learning or sensory disabilities (or a combination of them) who have left school and now have no study, employment or social activities.
They are stuck at home with none of the learning, play and social activity they had
Introduction: The Team Around the Child approach as a whole ‘system’ of intervention
In this approach to disabled children, a small individualised team or TAC (the Team Around the Child) is established around each child and family. Each child’s TAC is more effective, creative, wise and
Peter Limbrick writes: Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people are struggling to cope each day without effective support. The desperate situation is made worse in countries with austerity programmes and in countries with new migrant populations.
Public services are never going to help all of th
In this approach to disabled children, a small individualised team or TAC (the Team Around the Child) is established around each child and family. Each child’s TAC is more effective, creative, wise and powerful than the individual people in it. Typically, the members of a TAC might include, in addit
A paper by B K Srinath, J Shah, P Kumar and P S Shah
Abstract
Objective: To compare physiological and biochemical responses in stable preterm neonates and their parents following kangaroo mother care (KMC) and kangaroo father care (KFC).
Study Design: We conducted a prospective cross-over design st
Tom Rickert and Paul Ajuwon write: We are pleased to launch this important survey on transportation needs of children with disabilities in developing countries. People around the world are working hard to provide better education for children with disabilities, either as part of regular schools
Read more: Survey – getting disabled children to school in developing countries
Cartoon © Martina Jirankova-Limbrick 2011