What is the best way to promote early child and family support in a city, region or country? Part 3: I suggest a combined bottom-up and top-down approach with local forums or ‘TAC Councils’ at the grassroots

'... we are all making very slow progress in establishing effective integrated early child and family support'

In the first two parts of this essay I have suggested a top-down approach can be ineffective, whether the impetus comes from regional or national government, from chief executives in local

Best Start – about conception, newborns and more

Best Start by Health Nexus, formerly Ontario's Maternal Newborn and Early Child Development Resource Centre, supports service providers working on preconception health, perinatal and newborn health and early child development and education.

Go to: http://en.beststart.org/

Team Around the Child (TAC) Principles. FOURTH PRINCIPLE: ‘Each child’s TAC is a mutually supportive team with a flat power structure’. Translate this article if you wish

This series of short essays is intended as an introduction to TAC or as a refresher course for everyone around babies and infants who need special support for their development and learning. The article can be translated for use in newsletters, networks and websites in any country

FOURTH PRIN

What is the best way to promote early child and family support in a city, region or country?

Part 1: Problems with the top-down approach

Preamble

This essay concerns babies and pre-school children who have conditions that can present significant obstacles to their development and learning. A child might have a single condition (with a single diagnosis) or a multifaceted condition (with two

Team Around the Child (TAC) Principles. FIFTH PRINCIPLE: ‘TAC Action Plans are designed to reduce the child and family’s exhaustion and stress as much as possible.’ Translate this article if you wish

FIFTH PRINC

What is the best way to promote early child and family support in a city, region or country? Part 2: The work of Interconnections

This essay has two sections:

The independent work of Interconnections
Working with UK government

The independent work of Interconnections

Since the mid-1990s, I have been working to promote effective integrated early child and family support under the consultancy name of Interconnections. T

Team Around the Child (TAC) Principles. THIRD PRINCIPLE: There is a single, unified, holistic TAC Plan for each child'. Translate this article if you wish

THIRD PRINCIPLE: O

30 articles about supporting individuals with autism and other special needs

From May Institute (US)

From May Institute: ‘The following 30 articles offered by May Institute are written in accessible and practical language by dozens of the organization’s clinical experts.

‘In addition to providing important information on a range of topics from diagnosing infants and toddlers

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