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Early Child and Family Support Principles and Prospects: For parents and practitioners impatient for change

Written Peter Limbrick

2022

£15.00 (+ P&P)

This book is about support for families whose new child has significant challenges to development and learning. Key messages:

These families are an oppressed minority group unable to fight for their rights without help
These children and their families deserve the best possible quality of life
The task of parents is to bring up their children, practitioners’ task is to help them when they ask
Helping a new child develop and learn is primarily an education issue
Regular support is best offered at home and in community education settings rather than in hospitals
Most families will benefit from a locally relevant version of team around the child (TAC)
Early support practitioners should be treated as a unified workforce and part of a collective effort
Local early support task forces could help improve local systems and work to counter oppression

Published by Interconnections 2022. ISBN: 978-0-9576601-9-9

81 pages. 16cm x 22cm.Perfect bound.

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Integration Made Possible: A practical manual for joint working. Multiagency - multidisciplinary - transdisciplinary

Written Peter Limbrick

2020

£30.00 (+ P&P)

The word ‘integration’ can be defined as unifying diverse elements into a whole. Integration is described in this Manual as a process of joining things together with the purpose of achieving something better than was there when the things were separate. When various elements of support are integrated around a baby, child, teenager, adult or elderly person, a support system is created that is more whole.

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Bringing up babies and young children who have very special needs. A 21st century guide for parents, students and new practitioners

Written Peter Limbrick

2019

£14.75 (+ P&P) (Discount available for unwaged parents of children who have special needs.)

This small book is written for people who are coming new to the world of babies and young children who have very special needs. I hope this will include new parents, others with a parenting role, family members, students who might eventually work with these children and people who have just moved into this field of work. It can often feel like a world separated from the main world because babies and infants who have very special needs belong to a small minority most people will not encounter very often if at all.

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Primary Interventionists in the Team Around the Child approach: A guide for managers and practitioners supporting families whose baby or infant has a multifaceted condition

Written Peter Limbrick

2018, 120 pages

£10 (+ P&P)

“Long-term stress and strain in families can surely contribute to later mental ill-health for children, parents and other close family members. These mental states should not be underestimated. Coupled with anxiety about the child’s future and a feeling of being out of control of the family, they can overwhelm parents, keeping them awake into the small hours and bringing up very dark thoughts."

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Early Childhood Intervention without Tears: Improved support for infants with disabilities and their families

Written Peter Limbrick

2016

£22 (+ P&P)

Early childhood intervention services for babies and infants with disabilities have evolved with two in-built assumptions:

· Disabled infants can be treated very differently from typically developing infants
· Families must accept exhaustion and stress, often to the point of family breakdown

Peter Limbrick argues that both of these assumptions are wrong.

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Bobby can use the toilet

By Charmaine Champ

2016

£12 (+ P&P)

This is a social story with clear text and illustrations to help children learn to use the toilet at home or at school. The story of Bobby is intended to be used as part of a child’s toileting routine and read by a parent or carer with the child. There is a pull-out summary chart to be used as a visual timetable Pages are wipe-able for use in the toileting area.

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Bowel & Bladder Assessment Pack: A guide for carers and professionals helping children and young people with a learning disability, physical disability, autism or complex needs to be successful with toileting.

By Charmaine Champ

2016

£18 (+ P&P)

Some children and teenagers with a learning disability, physical disability, autism or complex needs remain incontinent of the bowel and bladder.

This has a serious impact on their self-esteem and on social and play activities. For parents and carers at home or in school there are added time pressures, increased physical demands and very significant costs.

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Caring Activism: A 21st Century Concept of Care – a new book for 2016

Written Peter Limbrick. Edited by Hilton Davis

2016

£12.99 (+ P&P)

This book is a proposal for citizens to join together to support vulnerable children, teenagers, adults and elderly people.

From the back cover: Think of rough sleepers in Europe’s capitals, of teenagers leaving care homes without aftercare, of elderly people struggling alone without family or friends. Think of people displaced by conflict and natural disasters.

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Horizontal Teamwork in a Vertical World

By Peter Limbrick

2012

£12.95 (+ P&P)

We have constant reminders of how hospitals, schools, care homes, GPs, social services, etc damage service users by failing to work together. People who run commercial organisations take collaboration in their stride and do it well, but many managers of public services wrongly assume it is impossible.

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An Interview with Professor Hilton Davis

2011

Edited by Peter Limbrick

£7.95 (+ P&P)

This publication is dedicated to everyone working in support of people who are vulnerable or in need for whatever reason. It is particularly for those who see that the system in which they work could be improved in terms of the quality of the support offered and the outcomes achieved.

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TAC for the 21st Century

Nine Essays on Team Around the Child

2009

Written and edited by Peter Limbrick

£13.95 (+ P&P)

The TAC system, accepted as good practice in several countries, offers opportunities to radically re-appraise how practitioners use time and resources in pursuit of effective support for the increasing population of infants who have multifaceted conditions and disabilities... read more and buy...

Family-Centred Support

for Children with Disabilities and Special Needs

2007

A collection of essays edited by Peter Limbrick

£17.50 (+ P&P)

These essays promote awareness and understanding of families in the people who manage and work in services that attempt to support them and describe approaches that are designed from this family-centred standpoint... read more and buy...

Early Support for Children with Complex Needs

Team Around the Child and the Multi-Agency Keyworker

2004

Written and edited by Peter Limbrick

£14.95 (+ P&P)

In traditional approaches to children with complex needs practitioners have worked separately, providing many families with a fragmented service. This manual addresses how to join these services together and argues that effective early support can only be achieved if key practitioners take time to establish better working relationships with parents and with each other... read more and buy...

An Integrated Pathway for Assessment And Support

for Children with Complex Needs and their Families

2003

Written and edited by Peter Limbrick

£12.95 (+ P&P)

The manual describes a practical, family-centred pathway which is based on the Team-around-the-Child model of multi-agency co-ordination. This integrated pathway incorporates processes for referral, assessment, service delivery and review, and gives parents a central role in planning the service for their child and family... read more and buy...

The Team Around The Child

Multi-Agency Service Co-ordination for Children with Complex Needs and their Families

2001

Written and edited by Peter Limbrick

£9.95 (+ P&P)