The AutismFIT project aims to improve the physical and mental health of young people -
with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) wih the use of innovative Virtual Reality tools and game-based learning environments.
By incorporating everyday objects and custom-made games, the project encourages healthy eat
‘Is this all?’ asked the Matron casually
This is number 21 of fifty pieces of poetry and prose written by Peter Limbrick as a monument to adults and children who have lived and died or are living now in inhuman situations. They are all inspired by real experience.
Tobacco Tin
Interrupting our
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A struggle to balance debt payments with spending on health, education and other development priorities
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2024—Developing countries spent a record $1.4 trillion to service their foreign debt as their interest costs climbed to a 20-year high in 2023, the World Bank’s latest Internat
SECTION 5: Wider Integration
This Manual has so far discussed integration at the level of public health, education and social care agencies and including the voluntary sector. In this section I want to extend joint working around people who have special needs to include: private services and private
The mission of the Center on the Developing Child is -
to leverage the power of science in pursuit of better, more equitable outcomes for young children facing adversity.
Interconnections – 1995 to 2025
One of the main purpose of Interconnections in the beginning was to promote multiagency keyworking as had been validated in the voluntary UK organisation ‘One Hundred Hours’. Keyworkers provide emotional and practical support to families and work to bring everyone aro
Read more: ‘Integration Made Possible’ in serial form. Celebrating 30 years of Interconnections
SECTION 6: First Moves to Promote Integration
This Section is about tasks for leaders. The word ‘leader’ refers in this Manual to any person promoting an integration project for local group of babies, children, teenagers, adults or elderly people who have some sort of special needs. Project leaders
SECTION 4: Considerations in Promoting Integration
This section discusses various topics that are connected in some way with integration of health, education, social care and other agencies and services supporting adults and children who have special needs for some reason. The section is intended to
Cartoon © Martina Jirankova-Limbrick 2011