21 April 2005
Accessing mainstream: examining the struggle for
parents of children who have learning difficulties Despite a series of policy
initiatives moving towards inclusive policy in Ireland, parents of children who
experience...
21 April 2005
'Making the best of a good job': The role of approved
childminding networks in changing practice Describes a study of the NCMA
approved networks scheme in England, by the NCB's...
21 April 2005
Steps in theory-of-mind development for children with
deafness or autism Prior research demonstrates that understanding theory of
mind (ToM) is seriously and similarly delayed in late-signing deaf children and
children...
21 April 2005
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell finds families
paying the cost of a bureaucratic scandal that's been ignored by politicians
Question: when is a national scandal neither a scandal, nor a...
21 April 2005
A British couple whose five-year-old daughter died in
the Boxing Day tsunami have raised over £30,000 to help refurbish an
orphanage in Sri Lanka. Kim Peatfield was on holiday with...
21 April 2005
Early years provision is firmly on the election agenda.
Mary Evans rounds up the relevant pledges by the three main parties Party
leaders and leading politicians, among them Chancellor Gordon...
21 April 2005
The influential work of an academic who developed the
theory that all children are intelligent in the different ways they learn is
described by Jonathan Barnes Howard Gardner is not...
21 April 2005
Harry has been standing unaided for increasingly longer
periods of time. He bobs up and down at the knees and beams at everyone,
obviously very pleased with himself. He took...
21 April 2005
The entrance to your setting is where young children
separate from their parents and it has some important work to do. Martin Rimes
offers advice on getting it right Does...