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London Schools and the Black Child Conference (VI) February 2009

(Keynote speech)

Rosemary Campbell-Stephens

London Schools and the Black Child: Conference VI was held at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, Westminster, London on Saturday 7th February 2009. Its theme was 'Educational Opportunity For All – Without Exclusion'. Rosemary joins President Barack Hussein Obama in urging parents, educators and campaigners to move forward with a 'yes, we can' attitude...

 

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...

 

Opinion: The Listening Game

Peter Shelton

Learning disabled people are used to having the power to make choices taken from them and, worse, when they do make choices they can be ignored. Peter Shelton and his colleagues at First Movement Trust found themselves in the enviable position of having to design a new building to be used by learning disabled people.

 

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