Teaching with Torres Strait Island Knowledge
A Conversation with Dr John Doolah
To mark 50 years of NAIDOC Week, Talking Teaching celebrates this year’s theme, The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy, by spotlighting the work of Dr John Doolah, a proud Torres Strait Islander and Indigenous education lec
Limbrick’s campus model for including all children in their local education system. Part 1
Referring to UK as an example of exclusion
The challenge
People who have differences, delay, disabilities are often excluded from things they should rightly be part of. This starts at babyhood and can then be a life-long disadvantage. This short essay is about children of all ages being
The Most Compelling Argument Against Tech In Schools. VIDEO. Have we all gone mad?
This brilliant video with Sophie Winkleman poses the question ‘What have we done to our children?’
For me, it raises the question, ‘Has our adult addiction to smartphones driven us all into some sort on insanity that prevents us taking care of our children?’
Peter Limbrick
Watch: https://www.youtube
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Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions: Empirically Validated Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder
Laura Schreibman et al
Abstract
Earlier autism diagnosis, the importance of early intervention, and development of specific interventions for young children have contributed to the emergence of similar, empirically supported, autism interventions that represent the merging of applied behavioral and
Physical activity in young people with epilepsy: development of an informational software application
By Geil Han Astorga et al
Conclusion
Healthcare providers suggest that an accessible, user-friendly, cost-free tool may help address PA (physical activity) concerns and promote active lifestyles for YPE (young people with epilepsy) and their families.
This project describes the early stages of
Poems, prose poems and imagined conversations
By Peter Limbrick in 2021
Some of these poems date back to when Peter was living in a Buddhist community while working in nearby cities to support families who had a baby with brain damage. Other poems date back further to a time when Peter was part of a UK movement working to close inhuman institut
The international inclusive v special education debate – some thoughts
Are we considering all children?
I have worked in the UK long enough to see this debate come round again and again. As it happens, we have a new government proposal this month.
My broad view:
School can be seen as having two main functions - (1) to free up parents so they can work - starting at nurs
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