TAC for the 21st Century: A unifying theory about children who have multifaceted disabilities
Peter Limbrick
We have in the UK an increasing population of children with neurological impairment and consequent multiple disabilities or 'multifaceted disability'. There is a danger of these children and their families being overloaded in the first years by too many practitioners with too many discipline-specific programmes. This comes from the well-intentioned, traditional practice of providing a new practitioner for each of the disabilities as they emerge...The Team Around the Child (TAC) approach adopts a systems perspective and enables service providers to move from thinking about multiples to thinking about wholes – whole children, whole conditions, whole intervention systems.
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