By Peter Limbrick in 2012
Introduction
My direct working experience in recent years has been mostly with young children who have a multifaceted condition and in this essay I am going to focus on two connected models of successful joint working for them and their families. At the same time, I
By Peter Limbrick in 2009
Introduction to the essays:
Team Around the Child, variously described as a philosophy, an approach, a model or a system, and often abbreviated to TAC, became an identifiable entity when it was named as such at the beginning of this century with the publication of Th
A manual for service development by Peter Limbrick 2004
Introduction
For many years parents of children with disabilities who have multiple or complex needs have been complaining about services being unco-ordinated and fragmented and about their children being treated in separate bits.
There
This is the original TAC manual by Peter Limbrick
Introduction
This manual describes an approach for providing services to children with complex needs and their families by means of an individualised professional team, called here the Team around the Child (TAC). The focus in this manual is o
By Peter Limbrick in 2018
Introduction
“This essay is for practitioners and managers in public, private and voluntary agencies that support families of babies and infants who have disabilities and special needs. It is also for parents, grand-parents and other family members. It argues for a modern a
Read more: Primary Interventionists in the Team Around the Child approach. Free PDF of the essay
By Peter Limbrick in 2012
From the Introduction –
"Though interagency collaboration is easy to define, it has not proved easy to achieve and good examples are a rarity. While service providers, whether concerned with education, health, social care, law enforcement, the courts, housing, etc st
By Peter Limbrick in 2003
Introduction
This manual is about babies and young children with disabilities who have complex needs. They represent an expanding population and they highlight the need for services to be more organised, more integrated, more family-centred and more accountable. The manual
50 pieces of poetry and short prose by Peter Limbrick
This is collection of short pieces about people of all ages who have learning disabilities and about the conditions they experience in any country. The collection spans the period from the1970s, co-inciding with the gradual closure of some of the
Read more: In Mind - a written monument to all people with intellectual disability. (Items 41 to 50)
Cartoon © Martina Jirankova-Limbrick 2011