Peter Limbrick writes: Austerity measures leave thousands of vulnerable and disabled adults, children and elderly people without effective support as they face such dire circumstances as loss of income, eviction from home or a long and lonely old age.
There are teenagers with a learning disabi
ECIA National Guidelines for Best Practice
From ECAI website: Early Childhood Intervention Australia’s (ECIA) National Guidelines for Best Practice in Early Childhood Intervention enable practitioners across Australia, no matter where they operate from, to access the latest research and advice on di
Peter Limbrick writes: Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people are struggling to cope each day without effective support. The desperate situation is made worse in countries with austerity programmes and in countries with new migrant populations.
Public services are never going to help all of th
In this approach to disabled children, a small individualised team or TAC (the Team Around the Child) is established around each child and family. Each child’s TAC is more effective, creative, wise and powerful than the individual people in it. Typically, the members of a TAC might include, in addit
The following is the beginning part of an article on the website of Dysphagia Café (Connecting the Dysphagia Clinician with a Global Community) -
Peter Limbrick writes: When a baby is born with disabilities, whether physical, intellectual or sensory, or with a multifaceted condition, there are many factors threatening the mental health of the baby, mother, father and other close family members.
These risks to mental health begin in hospita
Read more: The mental health of disabled infants and their mothers. Does this interest you?
Do you have ideas for protecting and promoting the mental health of babies and infants with disabilities?
Are you concerned for the mental wellbeing of the mother and other close family members?
If you have knowledge and skills in this important work please get in touch
Peter Limbrick
Interconnect
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Peter Limbrick writes: In every country there are teenagers with physical, learning or sensory disabilities (or a combination of them) who have left school and now have no study, employment or social activities.
They are stuck at home with none of the learning, play and social activity they had
Cartoon © Martina Jirankova-Limbrick 2011