The multifaceted condition and collective competence
Peter Limbrick
This essay is an argument against the traditional notion that, in the context of development and learning, an infant can be described as having multiple disabilities. While an adult certainly can have multiple disabilities, the infant is still developing neurologically and at this level the disabilities inevitably interact with each other as he develops and learns. The result is an emergent condition that is more than the sum of the parts – a multifaceted condition. Peter argues that our response ought to be a multifaceted early intervention system that brings separate professional skills together into a whole approach rather than offering the infant a number of separate practitioners each with their separate programmes.
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