Childhood and Disability

Key papers from Disability & Society

Sarah Beazley, Val Williams, Sarah Beazley, Val Williams

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9780415729239
• eBook ISBN: 9781000155662
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Early Childhood Education

Drawn from Disability & Society over the period 1997-2012, the twelve chapters in this book address a range of personal, cultural and institutional arenas in which challenges experienced by disabled children are played out. The book includes a mix of theoretical and applied material offering both powerful conceptual tools and practical insights, enabling readers to connect the work of recent decades to their own research and questions about disability and childhood. Readers will find this book an invaluable resource for understanding what we have learned about disability and childhood through the pages of the world leading international journal in the field. The collection makes available a well-informed understanding of conditions, policies and practices that create disability in children's lives so that we can further the struggle for a more inclusive future in which inequalities structured around impairment are removed. The importance of children's own voices for resisting disablement in childhood is clearly foregrounded in this invaluable collection.

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

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Introduction
• 1. Gone Missing? Disabled children living away from their families
• 2. Student Perspectives: Disabled Children, Parents and Professionals: partnership on whose terms?
• 3. Where Are the Children's Experiences? Analysing Social and Cultural Exclusion in 'Special' and 'Mainstream' Schools
• 4. 'I Value What You have to Say'. Seeking the Perspective of Children with a Disability, Not Just their Parents
• 5. Nothing to be had 'off the peg': consumption, identity and the immobilization of young disabled people
• 6. 'Chocolate ... makes you autism': impairment, disability and childhood identities
• 7. Children's experiences of disability: pointers to a social model of childhood disability
• 8. Notions of self: lived realities of children with disabilities
• 9. Constructing 'normal childhoods": young people talk about young carers
• 10. Not your average childhood: lived experience of children with physical disabilities raised in Bloorview Hospital, Home and School from 1960 to 1989
• 11. Facilitating and hindering factors in the realization of disabled children's agency in institutional contexts: literature review
• 12. No safety net for disabled children in residential institutions in Ireland
• 13. Conclusion
• Index