Dis/abled Childhoods?: A Transdisciplinary Approach

Description

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Introduction (Allison Boggis)....Pages 1-13 Policy, Provision and the Historical Context (Sarah Richards)....Pages 15-36 Diversity, Equality and Rights (Pere Ayling)....Pages 37-55 Issues of Impairment: Descriptions and Discussions (Cristian Dogaru)....Pages 57-76 The Individual and Self-Identity (Ferran Marsa-Sambola)....Pages 77-98 Embodiment and Representation (Jessica Clark)....Pages 99-120 Safeguarding Disabled Children and Young People (Allison Boggis)....Pages 121-139 Early Interventions (Garfield Hunt)....Pages 141-161 Educational Perspectives (Vanessa Rawlings)....Pages 163-185 Research with Disabled Children: Tracing the Past, Present and Future (Sarah Richards, Jessica Clark)....Pages 187-209 Brief Final Thoughts… (Allison Boggis)....Pages 211-216 Back Matter ....Pages 217-233