Editorial: Families whose baby or infant has significant challenges to development and learning are a severely oppressed minority group – this is why there are no effective support systems. Part 1.

It is such a massive struggle because the general public is not aware or concerned

The words I am using:

'Significant challenges to development and learning'.

This avoids the word ‘disability’ which I feel is unjustifiably negative about the new child’s present and future. Another common phrase, pr

Editorial: Cutting pediatric therapy in two to promote inclusion. Part 2: Implications

paediatric therapists have essential skills that parents, nursery staff and teachers do not have

In Part 1 I argued that in my view paediatric therapists typically do two sorts of work: one is essential health treatment; the other is helping a baby or infant acquire new understanding and skills. The

Editorial: NHS - '35% of pupils in England are expected to have access to a mental health support team by 2023'. Are we all going mad?

We were giving children a crappy childhood even before Covid came along

From the NHS website:

‘Experts in the teams will offer children one-to-one and group therapy sessions while helping to improve the whole school’s communities awareness of mental health through training sessions for parents and w

There is no evidence that Covid vaccines are safe for foetuses. What is the view of neonatologists, paediatricians and paediatric nurses?

Do not pregnant women and foetuses differ greatly in their physiology and neurology?

Editorial opinion:

Interconnections commissioned the cartoon for this issue to help highlight the fact that there is no evidence to offer to pregnant women that a Covid vaccine will not damage their unborn baby. The

Editorial: Cutting pediatric therapy in two to promote inclusion. Part 3: Teaching a child to drink from a cup and other functional skills

'involves the knowledge, understanding and skills of all the people around the child at home or in the nursery'

Drinking from a cup is an early skill and is used here as just one example of what babies and infants might learn in their pre-school years. Drinking is necessary for survival and drinking

Editorial: Cutting pediatric therapy in two to promote inclusion – and then losing the word ‘therapy’. Part 1. What do you think?

'Dragging child and family to hospital for regular visits might be the cheaper and most convenient option for hospital administrators but not for child and parents'

Peter Limbrick writes:

Working with babies and young children who have multifaceted conditions, I have been most effective as a teacher

An Expert’s Insight: Dr. Fawzia Reza on Diversity and Inclusion in Early Education - VIDEO

As communities around the world become increasingly diverse, it is important that schools create an environment that values the various backgrounds, perspectives, and beliefs of children, families, and staff

Fostering a school environment that embraces diversity and

Should we give babies and children a Covid vaccine? My cautious mind says not

Are some pharmaceutical companies, scientists and politicians becoming jab-happy?

Editorial: I am not yet differentiating between all these new vaccines. For the time being I am grouping the various vaccines together as ‘Covid vaccines’ and thinking of them as a single entity in the international re

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