Running with Walker Educational Sciences Primarily for parents and carers

Primarily for parents and carers of children with developmental disabilities

attachment and therapeutic intervention and challenges commonly held psychoanalytic ideas of child development

* the ways in which children negotiate the experience of disability in their everyday lives

and a very positive addition to recent publications

Some would argue that the teacher's job is to teach

Running with Walker Educational Sciences Primarily for parents and carersBy the time he was three, Walker's parents were concerned enough about his delayed development to consult a paediatric neurologist. Doctors diagnosed autism and issued a grim prognosis: 'I hold out no hope for this child'. But they hadn't accounted for Walker's intelligence, affection, and sense of humour or for the remarkable bonds that grew within his family. Walker's father, Robert Hughes, tells a touching and inspiring story of discovering that