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Publication Date:
1 Jul 1998
Publisher:
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Estimated despatch 27 - 29 May 2024
Description
Growing Up with Disability encompasses a wide range of perspectives on childhood impairment and its social implications. The book adopts a child-centred approach, stressing the importance of communicating with disabled children, and includes interviews and pieces of their own writing. Pre-school and school age children describe their behaviour and feelings within their own families, substitute families, and residential homes. The book explores how such children can best be protected, and how their quality of life can be improved. Using the social model of disability which identifies the barriers to inclusion, contributors give examples of progressive practice, and examine the aspirations of young disabled people, their friendships, and how they come to terms with adolescence and the transition to adulthood.
Contents
1. Theoretical Perspectives on Research with Disabled Children, Tom Shakespeare, University of Leeds and Nick Watson, University of Edinburgh. 2. An Historical Perspective, Maureen Oswin, retired Research Officer. 3. Early Intervention: the Eternal Triangle? Issues Relating to Parents, Professionals and Children, Caroline Jones, University of Warwick. 4. The Pre-School Years, Janet Read, University of London and June Statham, University of London. 5. Children's Experiences of School, Linda Shaw, Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education. 6. Parents and Family: Disabled Women's Stories about their Childhood Experiences, Carol Thomas, University of Lancaster. 7. Leisure and Friendship, Judith Cavet, Staffordshire University. 8. Quality of Life for Children and Young People with Serious Medical Conditions, Alison Closs, Moray House Institute of Education, Edinburgh. 9. Disabled Children and Child Protection, Helen Westcott, The Open University, Milton Keynes. 10. Group Advocacy in a Residential Setting, Chailey Young People's Group with Sue Virgo, St Gabriel's family centre, Brighton. 11. Disabled Children in Permanent Substitute Families, Rena Phillips, University of Stirling. 12. Young People's Aspirations, The Leighton Project with Simon Grant and Daisy Cole, facilitators, London. 13. The Dynamics of Transition to Adulthood, Sheila Riddell, Glasgow University.
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