International Guide ‘Are you worried about your child?’ in many languages. PDFs free to download for parents and professionals

Peter Limbrick writes:

An international group has written this Guide in the form of letters to parents and professionals to introduce key experiences faced by many families and to highlight their needs.

It offers antidotes to excessive stress and strain in children and families. T

UK: Helping only one in eight disabled people who want to work is not good enough. It leaves seven out of eight without help.

ERSA (Employment Related Services Association) says:

‘Young jobseekers with disabilities and health conditions need tailored, localised support to move towards and into work.

'The size of the new Work and Health Programme means only one in eight disabled people who want to work will have spec

Unequal City: The Hidden Divide Among Toronto’s Children and Youth

‘the divide in incomes along Indigenous, racial, immigration status, and gender lines is staggering’

From Social Planning Toronto website: This report draws on the Statistics Canada 2016 Census and other new data sources to describe the level, distribution and depth of poverty among Toronto children

Australia - Building capability in NSW health services for people with intellectual disability: the Essentials

The purpose of the Essentials is to help improve health services to people with intellectual disability in NSW.

This resource will guide health services sector staff and other service providers to better understand and meet the complex and multiple health needs of people with an intellectual disabil

Peer review on “Live Without Bullying”: report now online

December 14, 2017 - Ana Perez

From COFACE Families Europe: Members of COFACE Families Europe provide a wide range of support services to families, including support services to children, teachers, and parents on ways to tackle bullying and cyberbullying.

The impact of bullying on victims is well kn

"These six F-words won't fill up your swear jar: What do the F-words mean to youth with impairments?" Video from CP-NET

What do the "F-words" - Function, Family, Fitness, Fun, Friends and Future - mean to young people with CP and other disabilities?

CP-NET is proud to present a brand new video based on the "F-words" concept.

This video was created in close partnership with Ontario youth with disabilities, with

Karren Visser, photographer

Karren writes: My entire life I have looked through a lens – thick glasses as a child and contacts lenses from the age of fourteen.

An extremely myopic world in its often two-dimensional form has shaped my way of being, how I focus on my surroundings, which until the age of five I was unable to see

The Embodied Mind, Revised Edition: Cognitive Science and Human Experience -By Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch

From the MIT Press: ‘This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the “embodied cognition” approach in cognitive science.

'It pioneered the connections between phenomenology and science and between Buddhist practices and science—claims that have since become highly inf