Childhood and Disability: Key Papers from Disability & Society

ISBN-13: 9781138949164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 216 str.

Sarah Beazley; Val Williams

Opis

This book brings together key articles on disability and childhood drawn from the world-leading international journal Disability & Society. It is essential reading for a well-informed understanding of the inequalities that create disability in children’s lives and for critical indicators on how to overcome them.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Disability & Society.

Spis treści

Introduction Sarah Beazley and Val Williams  1. Gone Missing? Disabled children living away from their families Jenny Morris  2. Disabled Children, Parents and Professionals: partnership on whose terms? Pippa Murray  3. Where Are the Children's Experiences? Analysing Social and Cultural Exclusion in 'Special' and 'Mainstream' Schools J.M. Davis and N. Watson  4. ‘I Value What You Have to Say’. Seeking the Perspective of Children with a Disability, Not Just their Parents Belinda Garth and Rosalie Aroni  5. Nothing to be had ‘off the peg’: consumption, identity and the immobilization of young disabled people Bill Hughes, Rachel Russell and Kevin Paterson  6. ‘Chocolate…makes you autism’: impairment, disability and childhood identities Berni Kelly  7. Children’s experiences of disability: pointers to a social model of childhood disability Clare Connors and Kirsten Stalker  8. Notions of self: lived realities of children with disabilities Vanessa Singh and Anita Ghai  9. Constructing ‘normal childhoods’: young people talk about young carers L. O’Dell, S. Crafter, G. de Abreu and T. Cline  10. Not your average childhood: lived experience of children with physical disabilities raised in Bloorview Hospital, Home and School from 1960 to 1989 Tracy Odell  11. Facilitating and hindering factors in the realization of disabled children’s agency in institutional contexts: literature review Johanna Olli, Tanja Vehkakoski and Sanna Salantera  12. No safety net for disabled children in residential institutions in Ireland Pauline Conroy  13. Conclusion Sarah Beazley and Val Williams

O autorze

Sarah Beazley is Senior Teaching Fellow and Consultant Speech and Language Therapist working at Manchester University, UK, with deaf people, children with developmental disabilities, families and professionals. Val Williams is Reader in Disability, Policy and Practice at Bristol University, UK, working with people with learning disabilities on issues most relevant to them.