The Family Partnership Model

‘The Helping Relationship: Understanding Partnerships’ by Hilton Davis

In this article Professor Hilton Davis describes his Family Partnership Model. In this Model, the relationship between parents (of children who have disabilities) and those helping them is a partnership defined in terms of:

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Could the COVID-19-related Kawasaki Disease be the newest threat to our children?

"There is a growing concern that a Sars-CoV-2-related inflammatory syndrome is emerging in children in the UK."

From Euronews:

A new coronavirus-related syndrome impacting children could be emerging in the UK, the National Health Service (NHS) has warned.

NHS England has sent an urgent alert to GPs

Clinical features and aetiology of cerebral palsy in children from Cross River State, Nigeria

Paper by Duke R, Torty C, Nwachukwu K, Ameh S, Kim M, Eneli N, Onyedikachi A, Aghaji A, Burton K, Dyet L, Bowman R. 2020

OBJECTIVE: There are few studies on cerebral palsy (CP) in African children and our study aimed to describe the aetiology, characteristics and severity of CP in children from Nige

Supporting parent carers - A paper by Joanna Griffin on emotional wellbeing in parents of disabled children

'...professionals need to avoid making assumptions about parental responses to their child’s diagnosis and remain open to the individual’s experience.'

Extract: "We imagine our children before they are born, yet nothing fully prepares us for the realities of parenthood. Any parent takes time to adap

The advantages and disadvantages of electromagnetic radiation and all its gadgets

‘we need independent research showing long-term exposure is safe’

Peter Limbrick writes: There is much hysteria around at the moment in my country and perhaps yours. We have loud claims that 5G radiation is the answer to all our prayers, that smartphones are a large part of the answer to solving C-1

Key Principles of Early Intervention and Effective Practices

A crosswalk with statements from discipline specific literature

From the introduction:

Many states have been evaluating their early intervention practices and undergoing system change to incorporate effective practices related to providing services within the natural environment, as well as impleme

Building Core Capabilities for Life – from Center on the Developing Child

Adults need certain capabilities to get and keep a job, provide responsive care for children, manage a household, and contribute productively to the community

When these skills have not developed as they should, or are compromised by the stresses of poverty or other ongoing adversity, our communitie

Headsprout Early Reading in Special Schools project. Can you help? (UK)

Emily Tyler Roberts at Bangor University asks:

We are currently recruiting special schools with key stage 1 and 2 provision in the North West, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, East Midlands, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. If you could pass this on to any special schools in these reg