Curriculum content for children and adults with intellectual and other disabilities. Independence? No, thank you. Autonomy? Yes please!

Peter Limbrick writes: Is independence ever a valid goal? In this article I want to suggest that it is not, and offer instead the pursuit of autonomy. In my thinking this offers a better way forward for all of us as we grow from child to adult. Autonomy will add richness, meaning and value to th

After Brexit - a message from Inclusion Europe President

The UK referendum has stunned the world. Inclusion Europe, itself an expression of the belief in international cooperation, has to ask what this means for our movement and for the current and future generations of persons with intellectual disabilities and their families.

Our founding principl

Some concerns about the mental health of disabled babies and their mothers. Are we helping or hindering? By Peter Limbrick

My concerns are based more in a degree of familiarity with families of babies and infants who have disabilities than in any expertise in psychiatry. My experience is that when a new baby arrives with disabilities, little attention is paid to the mental health of baby, mother and other close family

The movement of peoples. Something bigger to come?

Editorial comment: My own experience is a million miles away from what desperate people moving into Europe are going through. In all my years I have never had a day without fresh water and good food. I have always had somewhere safe to sleep and a job when I needed work.

In the current mass movem

Zika virus is not the birth defect risk Scotland should be most worried about. Dr Jonathan Sher talks good sense

Dr Sher writes: Images of babies with severe microcephaly caused by the Zika virus are upsetting. Our hearts go out to these abnormally small-headed babies whose lives and life chances have been compromised – as well as to their families.

With the Rio Olympics now underway, the risks of contractin

The Tony Blair government, Iraq and Early Support for Disabled Children (ECI)

This article was first published as an Editorial by Peter Limbrick in IQJ Issue 6, July 2009 under the heading: ‘Blue boxes. Orange flames.’

The blue boxes of the title are those helpful information packs that England’s… Department for Children, Schools and Families… makes available to new famil

Collateral damage – a sorry little phrase. Editorial comment

The term ‘collateral damage’ is trotted out to make the death or damage of innocent people in conflict zones seem like an unfortunate inevitability. We are invited to think it is much the same as infirmity with old age and disturbed nights with a new baby. We don’t like it but we are persuaded it

Where is attendance compulsory? Just prisons and schools. But aren’t schools supposed to make children happy?

Editorial by Peter Limbrick: One day last week my newspaper had two items that caught my eye. The first about a report from the (UK) Children’s Society and the second about plans for new colleges in England to train students for practical careers from 14 years of age. I see a connection between th

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