Improving Care through World-Class Data and Innovation. Call for abstracts!

November 7 and 8, 2019 in Ottawa, Canada

BORN Ontario is seeking abstracts from any area of maternal child care (fertility; prenatal or newborn screening; normal or high-risk care in pregnancy, labour, birth or the newborn period; postpartum care; early newborn and childhood period) related to the c

Two classics about multiagency integration: ‘Integrated Pathway’ and ‘Horizontal Teamwork’. Special offer - 20% reduction

“Time and again we construct an... integrated system for a... category of service user only to see it crumble in the face of stronger forces ̶ like a sandcastle before the incoming tide.”

‘An Integrated Pathway for Assessment and Support: For children with complex needs and their

Down Syndrome Research Forum. Abstracts invited

This year’s Down Syndrome Research Forum is being held at UCL Institute of Education, London, UK on Monday/Tuesday 16^th/17^thSeptember 2019

It is hosted by Dr Jo Van Herwegen and the Child Development and Learning Difficulties lab in the department of Psychology and Human Development.

If you would li

New book: Bringing up babies and young children who have very special needs: A 21st century guide for parents, students and new practitioners. Review copies available

This book, written by Peter Limbrick, was published in April 2019. It can be seen here.

Review copies are available for parent organisations, course tutors, academics and editors of magazines, blogs, journals, etc.

Please apply to Peter Limbrick: This email address is being protected from spambots.

Foundation Years Team at NCB (UK) invite you to take a survey

Five minutes to make the Foundation Years better

From the team: We're looking to refresh the Foundation Years website as a hive of information and a community of best practice to support the early years workforce.

We'd really appreciate your help both in completing this quick survey by 5pm on Wednes

News needed about transportation to school for students with disabilities

See below for links to some relevant videos

Tom Rickert writes:

Dear friends and colleagues,

As we plan for our next newsletter, we are once again seeking articles and photos to illustrate news about inclusive public transport that is accessible to persons with disabilities. We are interested

Advance Care Planning in children’s palliative care. Can you help?

Karen Carr, a palliative care children’s nurse specialist from the University of Ulster, is researching health care professionals initiation of children's Advance Care Planning.

She is trying to identify any grey evidence (papers, guidance, toolkits etc. produced by organisations outside of th

Psychological assessment in a mix of languages. Can you help?

Dr Lindsay Mizen writes: "In our service in Edinburgh (UK), we're seeing more people presenting to the learning disability service who don't speak English as a first language and therefore presenting a challenge to services in terms of confirming or diagnosing LD with English language