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Interconnections Worldwide Working internationally to share information, help build knowledge and support teamwork around babies, children and young people who are disabled, marginalised or vulnerable The home of Team Around the Child (TAC) and the Multiagency Keyworker |
For new practitioners offering family-centred support to children with disabilities / special needs
Peter Limbrick
This will be a regular feature in IQJ. The alphabet will cover issues which have arisen repeatedly in my consultancy and training work over the last 12 years. The suggestions humbly offered here come from my experience as a sibling of a man with severe cerebral palsy...
Peter Limbrick
The Interconnections Manual 'An Integrated Pathway for Assessment and Support for children with complex needs and their families' (Limbrick, 2003) describes how health, education, social services and the voluntary/private sector can work together to provide children who have complex needs and their families with an effective service.
Jane Francis
At Changing Faces we work with children and young people who have conditions, injuries or illness that affect the way they look, and with their families and their schools. If we want schools and life after school to become more and more accessible and inclusive then schools have a vital job to do in enabling everyone to be more comfortable and confident around disfigurement and disability.
Jane Fraser
This article describes an experimental method of addressing the need for young adults with learning disabilities to acquire social skills relevant to current youth culture if they are fully to access the social scene with dignity and remain safe. It then gives an account of the teaching materials used for this project.
Cartoon © Martina Jirankova-Limbrick 2011