Tom Rickert and Paul Ajuwon write: We are pleased to launch this important survey on transportation needs of children with disabilities in developing countries. People around the world are working hard to provide better education for children with disabilities, either as part of regular schools
Read more: Survey – getting disabled children to school in developing countries
The foundation for sound mental health begins in early childhood. As early experiences and relationships interact with genes, they shape brain architecture.
Disruptions in this developmental process can impair a child’s capacities for learning, behavior, and emotional control.
'InBrief: Early Ch
Read more: Video: Early Childhood Mental Health - from the Center on the Developing Child
Why do some children do well despite significant adversity, while others do not? Science can help us understand the roots of resilience, which allows us to respond adaptively to serious hardship.
These three short videos provide an overview of why resilience matters, how it develops, and ways to str
Read more: All about resilience in children – from the Center on the Developing Child
Peter Limbrick writes: TAC is horizontal because it is always a small team of equals. This is true whether it is a parent, child-minder, therapist and social worker around a disabled infant (Team Around the Child) or relative, neighbour and nurse around a frail elderly person in hospital (Team Aroun
Read more: Why is TAC horizontal? (TAC empowering vulnerable adults & children)
5 October 2015 Thistle Hotel, The Royal Angus, Birmingham
Keynote speakers include:
Read more: Beautiful Minds: Nurturing and Promoting Mental Wellbeing in Children and Young People
Peter Limbrick writes: I was recently asked for a definition of this and I realised I have never written one as such – except for saying that if members of a child's TAC (Team Around the Child) integrate their work to the fullest extent it becomes a transdisciplinary approach. So here is my definiti
Read more: Transdisciplinary teamwork in early childhood intervention. What is it?
An article in National Geographic by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee: In the late 1980s, when the crack cocaine epidemic was ravaging America's cities, Hallam Hurt, a neonatologist in Philadelphia, worried about the damage being done to children born to addicted mothers. She and her colleagues, studying chil
Read more: A baby's brain needs love to develop. What happens in the first year is profound
Editorial comment: It is not my intent to cynically exploit a family tragedy to help me develop the argument for effective family support. But Mr Clarence, after the trial of his wife who had killed the three of their children who suffered from spinal muscular atrophy type 2, said that lessons need
Cartoon © Martina Jirankova-Limbrick 2011