Within This Issue
Sensory work and sensory environments are considered in the editorial. The rest of the issue focuses on working with parents: support for parents of pre-school and nursery aged children; the parental stresses caused by the diagnosis of a multi—sensory impairment and how interaction between mother and child may be affected by the presence of such an impairment; recruiting and training volunteers and encourage a long—term partnership with people in hospital with no visiting friends or relatives; the role of development officer at the White Top Centre, Dundee; the role of fathers in early intervention; the Diamond horse riding centre; and the MENCAP PIMD Section and its publication of 3-day workshop training packages for parents and carers of children and adults who have profound and multiple disabilities.
