‘Primary Interventionist’: The concept isn’t popular but it is good for some families and makes the best use of busy practitioners’ time

The model is appropriate when the child ‘does not have the capacity…to relate comfortably to a number of interventionists or to accept being handled by them’.

For some families who have a baby or infant with very special needs, effective support can come from just one practitioner who works d

If crowing white man is top of the heap, who is at the bottom? Disabled babies perhaps

We live with pecking orders. We ascribe value to each other. We jostle for position.

Perhaps the jostling is easiest for white people and amongst those, easiest for men. Isn’t this the repeated lesson of history?

Intellectual, physical or sensory disability must make the jostling harde

Vulnerable people might depend on someone ‘blowing the whistle’ to protect them. Could you do it?

In the UK…we do not like vulnerable people to be abused or killed by people who are supposed to care for them, BUT WE DO NOT LIKE WHISTLE-BLOWERS EITHER

UK newspapers and media are full this week of reports of hundreds of elderly people being killed in hospital by being given lethal doses of

Charity bosses in my country – roaring lions or bulls being led by the nose?

Editorial: 'I doubt that big-money institutionalised charities can any longer be agents for radical social change. I doubt that genuine charity can even survive among the rich and powerful around these organisations.'

In 2013 Sir Roger Singleton, chair of the Panel on the Independence o

Your early childhood intervention and ‘early support’ - Modern or out of date? Here is a ten-point scale for practitioners and parents

If you score 8 or above, I would like to write about your system

Peter Limbrick writes: This follows the piece I wrote in the August TAC Bulletin under the heading, ‘If crowing white man is top of the heap, who is at the bottom? Disabled babies perhaps’

I dared to suggest that some outdated e

Flags and barbed wire

This first part of the 21^stcentury might be looked back on as a time of nations desperately trying to keep unwanted people out and, at the same time, working to get rid of people they feel do not belong

Just as there are two sides to every stretch of wire and every length of wall, so there a

How is your evolution? Take the TAC Bulletin ‘glued in’ test

Blind faith in all the new technological gadgets and in the rich men who design and market them seems to be lessening

The Observer newspaper on 27th May 2018 ran two big features, one by James Williams and the other by Jaron Lanier.

Both assert that these gadgets (sometimes tools, sometimes

A teenager living with brain injury speaks to TAC Bulletin readers

Hi, my name is Charlotte and I suffered a brain haemorrhage in 2008. I was on holiday on the Isle of Wight at the time. My brain condition was very unique as it is very rare. I had a brain haemorrhage, an AVM (Arterio Venous Malformation) and an Aneurysm. I was only 11 when it happened. Altogether I

If you score 8 or above, I would like to write about your system

Peter Limbrick writes: This follows the piece I wrote in the August TAC Bulletin under the heading, ‘If crowing white man is top of the heap, who is at the bottom? Disabled babies perhaps’

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