Interconnections
National Seminar in London: ‘Just Too Many Practitioners?’
26th November 10.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. (Reception
from 9.30)
Friends Meeting House
Euston Road
London
(Opposite Euston Station)
PROGRAMME
The
seminar is facilitated by Peter Limbrick and will have a mix
of
presentations, plenary discussion and small-group discussions
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9.30
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Reception and Refreshments
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10.00
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Topic:
Too many Practitioners?
How some babies and pre-school children become overloaded
with multiple practitioners in response to their multiple needs. TAC
protocols as part of a more child-centred approach.
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Presentation: The
traditional ‘scatter-gun’ approach in early intervention: How it arises. Why
it is not appropriate.
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Discussion
groups: Which children have too many practitioners? What effect
does it have on them?
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Plenary
discussion: TAC (Team Around the Child) protocols to avoid or remedy
these dangers.
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11.00
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Break
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11.45
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Topic: Too many programmes?
How some babies and pre-school children become overloaded
with too many separate discipline-specific programmes. The TAC system as part
of the solution.
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Presentation: Integrating education and therapy programmes into a whole-child approach.
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Presentation: Offering some children a primary interventionist within the TAC system.
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Discussion
groups: The pros and cons of these child-centred approaches.
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1.00
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Lunch (vegetarian)
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1.45
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Topic: Radical change.
Does TAC open the way for a radical reconfiguration of how
multi-disciplinary and multi-agency practitioners spend their time supporting
children with ‘complex’ needs?
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Discussion
groups: A case study to explore effective ways forward.
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Presentation: Involving parents in planning changes to how these children and families are
supported.
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Plenary
discussion: Reactions to the radical changes suggested.
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3.00
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Seminar ends. The room will be available for continuing
discussions.
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Testimonials about our National
Seminar 'Just Too Many Practitioners?' which was held in Birmingham on
July 9, 2009:
"Thank you for today. It has
been real food for thought. I have to go back and start thinking about which
pre-school children are not emotionally equipped for the multiple interventions
we are giving them.”
"When I get
back I am going straight to my manager to get these protocols about overload
built into our other protocols.”
"The seminar
was a wonderful opportunity to think new thoughts and share with people from
other parts of the country.”
Facilitated by Peter Limbrick, these seminars are designed
for senior managers and multi-disciplinary practitioners who
support babies and young children who have ongoing, multiple conditions and
disabilities, and their families. The focus will be service development
embracing TAC philosophy, principles and practice. The following is from an
essay TAC for the 21st Century:
“So what happens in the UK to an infant who has a ‘multifaceted’
disability?
The
traditional approach is to add a new practitioner for each disability that we
discover. The child can be overwhelmed by the requirement to relate to so many
people – far more than we would impose on a non-disabled child –
and might have a weekly routine crammed with discipline-specific programmes.
Pre-school
practitioners suffer too with increasing demands on their time as they try to
meet parents’ aspirations for regular sessions of this or that.
We
blindly assume that the answer for children who have multiple diagnoses is
simply to multiply the practitioners. This scatter-gun approach has happened by
default and is not tenable within the resources available in the UK. Nor should
we perpetuate it when we give some thought to what is fair to children.
For
some reason, these children manage to creep under our ‘child-centred’ radar.
Could this be because we remain stuck in an overly medical approach and see the
disabilities under the microscope but not the child under our nose?”
Extracts from essay ‘TAC
for the 21st Century:
A unifying
theory about children who have multifaceted disabilities’
by Peter Limbrick, IQJ, Issue Number 5, April 2009
Costs (to
include Lunch):
Single delegate: £120
Two delegates: £210 (£105 each)
Three Delegates: £285 (£95 each)
Four delegates: £340 (£85 each)
Five delegates: £375 (£75 each)
Parents and carers: Free (Limited number of places)
For an
electronic booking form e-mail p.limbrick@virgin.net
Each delegate will receive a year’s free subscription to IQJ
(Interconnections Quarterly Journal) which usually costs £25. Visit http://www.icwhatsnew.com/iqj/date.htm
[A seminar structured on these lines can be staged at your venue
Costs (excluding expenses):
£500 per day for up to 20 people
£700 for up to 40 people
£900 for up to 60 people.
Contact Peter Limbrick: p.limbrick@virgin.net ]
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