Publications
Pauline McGregor Address
2006
Robust Hope: Finding a home for early childhood intervention in the new early years landscape 
Throughout its history in Australia, early childhood intervention has sought to balance two seemingly contradictory aims: to differentiate itself as a separate system to mainstream early childhood services and to work towards the inclusion of its client group (young children with disabilities and their families) within their local communities. The first has been necessary to ensure both a clear funding base for service delivery and recognition of the professional expertise needed for effective intervention. A separate specialist system does, however, have its disadvantages. Issues related to identification, referral, effective collaboration with generic services and not least, establishing the efficacy of early childhood intervention remain problematic. Furthermore a name change from early intervention to early childhood intervention has not brought the level of public awareness and recognition it was intended to achieve. Read more...
Pauline McGregor Address 2006
(pdf 211KB)
|
