The Lives of Children and Adolescents with Disabilities

Herausgeber: Beckett, Angharad E.; Callus, Anne-Marie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in disability studies, childhood studies, medicine and health sciences, and sociology. It also provides insights that will be of use and value to professionals working with disabled children and adolescents in education, health and in disability-specific services.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2023
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9780367610227
• ISBN-10: 0367610221
• Artikelnr.: 69030823

Autorenporträt

Angharad E. Beckett, FRSA, is Professor of Political Sociology and Social Inclusion at the University of Leeds. She is a member of the Centre for Disability Studies (Leeds), where she was for many years Co-Director. She is a researcher and educator in the area of disability and social justice, with a primary focus on rights and inclusion for disabled children. She regularly advises national and international governments and civil society organisations on related matters. Anne-Marie Callus is Associate Professor in the Department of Disability Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta. She lectures, researches, and has published on disability rights, empowerment of persons with intellectual disability, inclusive education and disabled children's rights, as well as cultural representations of persons with disability. She is Deputy Editor of Disability & Society.

Inhaltsangabe

1.The Lives of Children and Adolescents with Disabilities: An Introduction.
2.Kia ora from Ralph. 3.Childhood: magic or misery? Childhood: happy or
sad? 4.The Tale of the Dancing Eyes. 5.The Trouble with 'Normal': Finding
hope through resistance. 6.Disabled Children's Active Participation in
Early Childhood Education: A story of love, rights and solidarity from
Aotearoa New Zealand. 7.Positioning the Views of Children with
Developmental Disabilities at the Centre of Early Interventions. 8.A
Minority Within the Family: Disabled children and parental perceptions.
9.Nature Play for Disabled Children - Muddy puddles for all? 10.Disabled
Children's Recreational Uses of Digital Technologies in the Context of
Children's Digital Rights. 11.The Individual Education Programme: Who knows
best? 12.Digital Participation and Competencies for Young People with
Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities. 13.Autistic Youth as Active
Agents for Societal Change. 14.'Normal, different, or something in
between'. Young people with autism and Down syndrome and psycho-emotional
disablism. 15.We are Sexual Too: Sexuality in the lives of disabled
adolescents. 16.Challenges of the Somos Uno Más [We are one of the same]
Programme in the Access to Higher Education and Preparation for Adulthood
of Young Persons with Intellectual Disability in Mexico.