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This edited collection explores the intersectionality of childhood and disability. Whereas available scholarship tends to concentrate on care-giving, parenting, or supporting and teaching children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, the contributors to this collection offer an engaging and accessible insight into childhoods that are impacted by disability and impairment. The discussions cut across traditional disciplinary divides and offer critical insights into the key issues that relate to disabled children and young people's lives, encouraging the exploration of both disability and childhoods in their broadest terms.
Dis/abled Childhoods? will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including Special Educational Needs; Childhood Studies; Disability Studies; Youth Studies; and Health and Social Care.
List of contents
1. Introduction; Allison Boggis.- 2. Policy, Provision and the Historical Context; Sarah Richards.- 3.Diversity, Equality and Rights; Pere Ayling.- 4. Issues of Impairment: Descriptions and Discussions; Cristian Dogaru.- 5. The Individual and Self-Identity; Ferran Marsa-Sambola.- 6. Embodiment and Representation; Jessica Clark.- 7. Safeguarding Disabled Children and Young People; Allison Boggis.- 8. Early Interventions; Garfield Hunt.- 9. Educational Perspectives; Vanessa Rawlings.- 10. Research with Disabled Children: Tracing the Past, Present and Future; Sarah Richards and Jessica Clark.- 11. Brief Final Thoughts...;Allison Boggis.
About the author
Allison Boggis is Senior Lecturer, Early Years, at the University of Suffolk, UK.
Summary
Illustrates the influence that the sociology of childhood and the social model of disability has had in shifting the focus from a ‘deficit’ model of childhood to a rights respecting model
Provides an introduction to the development of disability welfare provision
Engages in critical and cultural debates relating to the broad topics of diversity, rights and equality
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“The text is simultaneously heavily referenced and accessible. It therefore provides a sound knowledge of what constitutes and affects the experience of disabled childhoods in a manner that is useful to students and researchers alike. … the book provides an excellent balance of theoretical frameworks, historical background and present-day practices, whilst inviting the reader to consider whether they are creating spaces that marginalize and disregard rather than empower disabled children.” (Elvira Psaila, Disability & Society, May 13, 2019)
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"The text is simultaneously heavily referenced and accessible. It therefore provides a sound knowledge of what constitutes and affects the experience of disabled childhoods in a manner that is useful to students and researchers alike. ... the book provides an excellent balance of theoretical frameworks, historical background and present-day practices, whilst inviting the reader to consider whether they are creating spaces that marginalize and disregard rather than empower disabled children." (Elvira Psaila, Disability & Society, May 13, 2019)
