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
Read more: Are you passionate about the mental health of disabled babies and family members?
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
Introduction: The Team Around the Child approach as a whole ‘system’ of intervention
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
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
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
A paper by B K Srinath, J Shah, P Kumar and P S Shah
Abstract
Objective: To compare physiological and biochemical responses in stable preterm neonates and their parents following kangaroo mother care (KMC) and kangaroo father care (KFC).
Study Design: We conducted a prospective cross-over design st
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
Cartoon © Martina Jirankova-Limbrick 2011