Voices project Report about people with very complex disability needs, particularly intellectual impairment - from New Zealand

“Severely disabled persons who are non-speakers are an ‘invisible sector’ within the disability sector itself.”

 

Executive Summary

"This collaborative project of the Federation of Disability Information Centres and Complex Care Group revealed findings which will be of interest to government an

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Connecting the Brain to the Rest of the Body: Early Childhood Development and Lifelong Health Are Deeply Intertwined

From Center on the Developing Child

"We know that responsive relationships and language-rich experiences for young children help build a strong foundation for later success in school. The rapidly advancing frontiers of 21st-century biological sciences now provide compelling evidence that the foundat

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We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World – by Malala Yousafzai

'puts a human face to what is all too often reduced to a catalogue of statistics'

From Waterstones:

“In I Am Malala, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai told a story of bravery and survival that became a symbol of resistance around the world. We Are Displaced is her powerful and timely follow-

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