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Editorial
and Opinion
Peter Limbrick
A brief discussion of the power structures within which
parents and professionals operate, with the conclusion
that part of the true role of professionals is to equip
families for their future life with the child.
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Lead
Article - Team Around the Child at work in Australia
Sue Davies
The basis of the innovative, service delivery model developed
by Kurrajong Early Intervention Service (KEIS) is the
family-centred, transdisciplinary teamwork of the Team-Around-the-Child
(TAC) approach developed in the UK. As there has been
limited research into early childhood intervention models
in Australia, the project, named the Rural Beginnings
Project, has significant implications for future practice.
This paper will outline the research base behind KEIS’s
early childhood intervention model and will show how an
early intervention service in Australia has made the TAC
approach work in both regional and smaller rural areas
in Australia.
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Josh’s
Story
Kimberley Reid
Kimberley and her son Josh have been supported by the
same Kurrajong Early Intervention Service that features
in the lead article in this issue of IQJ by Sue Davies.
Kimberley describes how a good service became even better
when the outreach service was established. This development
gave Josh improved opportunities for learning, saved the
family much stress, time and money, and supported Josh
in his transition into mainstream school.
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Parent-child
interaction as focus for early intervention: experience
from early-age Conductive Education
Wendy Baker and Andrew Sutton
Early-age Conductive Education developed as a means to
activate young children whose motor disorders impeded
interactions with their material and especially social
worlds upon which social and psychological development
depend (reciprocity). Parent-and-child intervention teaches
children together with their parents, enhanced by implementation
in small groups. Experience at the National Institute
of Conductive Education dates back fifteen years and has
also involved a range of disabling conditions beyond motor
disorders, including intellectual disorders. The approach
is compatible with the thinking of major theorists in
psychology (Vygotsky, Wallon, Feuerstein, Bronfenbrenner,
Dalto). Given lack of demonstrable efficacy for existing
approaches to early intervention, a research methodology
is proposed for evaluating this psycho-social family-based
intervention.
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Dads
and Dinghies: How Limelight Fathers and Children’s
Group engages fathers in a Family Learning Centre
Tim Neville
In this article Tim Neville describes the work undertaken
by the Lewisham Branch of the Pre-school Learning Alliance
in engaging fathers into Limelight Family Learning Centre.
The article follows various strategies to try and involve
fathers in their children’s development and learning.
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Postural
Care Provision – Current policies and objectives
Anna Goldsmith
Postural Care, otherwise known as Protection of Body Shape
is a fundamental unmet health need for people with a movement
difficulty. This article will discuss current service
provision and how it can be seen to be failing many individuals
and their families. It will also discuss the moral and
legal reasons why investment in self-advocates, families,
Personal Assistants and those within an individual’s
first circle of support, is the only way to ensure that
we protect body shape, muscle tone, and most importantly,
quality of life for individuals with a movement difficulty.
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Families
look to their preschool for support. But who will support
preschool staff?
Carolyn Blackburn
In November 2007 Worcestershire Pre-School Learning
Alliance undertook a Practitioner-Led Research Project
funded by the Children’s Workforce Development Council
to discover what support parents need when their child
is diagnosed with an illness or disability. The research
project also looked at how preschool staff support children
with Special Educational Needs (SEN) attending their settings
and their families. Questionnaires were sent to 30 families
and 100 preschools. A total of 8 families and 44 preschools
responded. In addition 7 families and 10 preschools provided
face-to-face interviews. The following report draws on
that research to discuss the services available to preschools
from other agencies to facilitate them in supporting children
with SEN and their families.
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A
town like Alice – A diary
Deborah Berkeley
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Parents
as Keyworkers
Michelle Mould
Michelle’s thirteen-year-old daughter was diagnosed
with autism ten years ago. Michelle describes how she
reached a point of having to take back control because
‘I couldn’t keep facing the days feeling helpless,
useless and with no relationship with my daughter’.
She did this by becoming her own keyworker. Michelle argues
in this essay that every keyworker should be equipped
to empower parents to be their own keyworker – if
and when they want this and are ready for it.
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