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Overview
Encompassing a wide range of perspectives on childhood impairment and its social implications, Growing Up with Disability adopts a child-centered approach, including interviews with disabled young people and their own writing to enable their voices to be heard. Pre-school and school age children describe their behavior and feelings within their own families, substitute families and residential homes. The book explores how such children can be best protected, and how their quality of life can be improved. Using the social model of disability which identifies the barriers to inclusion faced by disabled people, 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.Synopsis
Encompassing a wide range of perspectives on childhood impairment and its social implications, Growing Up with Disability adopts a child-centered approach, including interviews with disabled young people and their own writing to enable their voices to be heard. Pre-school and school age children describe their behavior and feelings within their own families, substitute families and residential homes. The book explores how such children can be best protected, and how their quality of life can be improved. Using the social model of disability which identifies the barriers to inclusion faced by disabled people, 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.
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Encompasses a range of perspectives on childhood impairment and its social implications, with much material from the point of view of real-life children and teens with physical and learning disabilities. Using the social model of disability which identifies the material and social barriers to inclusion, contributors give examples of progressive practice, and examine the aspirations of young disabled people. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.