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Interconnections
Quarterly Journal:
In support of all practitioners working in multi-disciplinary
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and young people (0-25 years) with special needs – and their
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July 2010. Volume 3. Number 10.
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Summary of Contents |
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Editorial & Opinion:
Peter
Limbrick
‘While we
can expect yet more radical changes in how public services are organised…I
take comfort from knowing that the practitioners in the new configurations in
health, education and social care services will be the same ones who are
doing the work now… doing the essential work at the grassroots with children
and families no matter what the new systems are. And now there is a perfect
opportunity for these workers, following the philosophical trend set by the
new government, to flex their muscles and get their voices heard by those
creating the new systems.’
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ACT’s Best Practice Guide: Prompts for
care in the last hours and days of a child or young person’s life
Katrina McNamara-Goodger
The ACT Best Practice
Guide, Prompts for care in the last
hours and days of a child or young person’s life aims to provide workers with an easy to reference
document that can be easily carried with the worker. While there are many
other fuller references to care at end of life, this guide aims to be a short
reference document that provides a short list of prompts to support best
practice. It was developed with the support of a number of experienced
children’s palliative care professionals. ACT is the national charity that represents children with life-limiting or
life-threatening conditions and their families (www.act.org.uk).
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p 3
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Photo
Feature: Alive and Visual. First
Movement adventures with digital arts
Caroline Bagnall
This
selection of remarkable photos come from Derbyshire-based arts organisation,
First Movement, and feature learning-disabled people involved in digital arts
and making innovative and experimental use of new technologies. Live video
links between First Movement’s Level Centre and their Level Mobile Studio
bring people from miles apart into the same performance.
15 photographs and 433 words
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p 8
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An interview with Professor Hilton
Davis
Part III
‘Since I wanted to develop the Model as far as I
could through research and to disseminate the work, I approached the Trust
management team to allow me to step down from my role and to form a centre
dedicated to work on the Model. Fortunately they agreed wholeheartedly and
allowed me to set up what became known as the Centre for Parent and Child
Support….I imagine that this agreement was achieved at least partly from the
fact that the Centre would contribute international recognition for the Trust
and significant revenue. However, no doubt our enthusiasm for the project was
important.’
789 words
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An alphabet of helpful hints: J is for Joint working
Peter
Limbrick
‘Some parents might assume that when they ask a practitioner for help
with a particular issue, they are asking the whole local multi-agency early
support system – and then become very disillusioned and let down when
they discovers their plea did not go beyond the individual practitioner and
perhaps her team. Conversely, other parents might not have expected their
observations about their family problems to be spread across the local
agencies.’
1085 words
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p 19
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Infant Massage for Children
with Disabilities/Special Needs
Anita Epple
Baby Massage is a wonderful way for parents
to use positive touch. This gives the opportunity for special time together;
incorporating not only the massage but also therapeutic hugs and holds, fun
with nursery rhymes and music. Baby massage is also a fantastic way for parents
to learn how their baby communicates with them, enabling parents to
understand what their baby wants and comfort them with loving touch.
872 words
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A Town Like Alice – Episode 10
Deborah
Berkeley
‘Thank goodness for school
no. 3, with its frank admission that inclusion hadn’t been the best solution
for all their pupils with SEN, but a total willingness and ‘up for it’
attitude that I found really welcoming. They learned Alice’s name and kept
using it, too. If only they had had a bit more experience, I might feel
confident about her going there.’
665 words
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p 26
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Promoting a Learners’ Charter
Gerry German
There needs to be an agreement by all of us
about educational provision in modern, multi-ethnic Britain. The ones really
to be consulted are children and young people who combine knowledge of life
at the sharp end with a vision of a society where they could be at the same
time happy and secure – and imaginative and co-operative in developing
individual, community, national and global potential. Gerry German
anticipates a new Learners’ Charter to be published in summer 2010.
1103 words
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Helping parents of disabled children help themselves with their
relationship
Justine Devenney
Adjusting to the demands of parenthood is a
testing time for all couples. When their child has a disability, parents face
increased financial worries, isolation, stress, and the prospect that as
their child grows, these problems will not diminish. Research shows that poor relationships affect children….The two
key elements to supporting these families are reducing pressure and
strengthening their relationship – which in turn will add to the
protective factors for their children. One Plus One, the UK’s leading
relationships research organisation, has developed a new web service for
families called thecoupleconnection.net In this article, Justine
Devenney of One Plus One gives an account of the service, of how it helps
parents to help themselves, and of its focus on parents of children who have
disabilities.
1674 words
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TAC as the
family-owned organisational nucleus making the best use of limited resources
Peter
Limbrick
The focus in this essay is
on how each child’s TAC can function in early childhood intervention as the
family-owned organisational nucleus – a persisting organisational
nucleus that is essential for each child who has a ‘multifaceted condition’
to keep all separate agencies, services and practitioners working together in
an integrated and coherent approach. The essay describes the relevant
characteristics of the TAC approach and the potential achievements of a
child’s TAC, with just three or four people, functioning as the
organisational nucleus for multi-agency, child and family-centred support.
Peter Limbrick argues that the TAC System’s work patterns bring real benefit
to busy practitioners, make the best possible use of limited resources and,
most important of all, recognise parents’ natural central role in caring for
their children.
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