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Author McLaughlin, Janice

Title Disabled childhoods. Monitoring differences and emerging identities / janice McLaughlin ; Emma Clavering ; Edmund Coleman-Fountain
Published Basingstoke : Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (216 pages)
Series Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
Routledge advances in disability studies.
Contents Theorising disabled childhoods -- Methodological approaches -- Institutional norms and transitions -- Engagements with medical diagnosis and intervention -- Embodied practices and valued identities -- Making family -- Embodied and relational citizenship
Summary A crucial contemporary dynamic around children and young people in the Global North is the multiple ways that have emerged to monitor their development, behaviour and character. In particular disabled children or children with unusual developmental patterns can find themselves surrounded by multiple practices through which they are examined. This rich book draws on a wide range of qualitative research to look at how disabled children have been cared for, treated and categorised. Narrative and longitudinal interviews with children and their families, along with stories and images they have produced and notes from observations of different spaces in their lives - medical consultation rooms, cafes and leisure centres, homes, classrooms and playgrounds amongst others - all make a contribution. Bringing this wealth of empirical data together with conceptual ideas from disability studies, sociology of the body, childhood studies, symbolic interactionism and feminist critical theory, the authors explore the multiple ways in which monitoring occurs within childhood disability and its social effects
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Children with disabilities -- Social conditions
Children with disabilities -- Services for.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Children with disabilities -- Services for
Children with disabilities -- Social conditions
Form Electronic book
Author Clavering, Emma
Coleman-Fountain, Edmund
LC no. 2015034344
ISBN 9781317748908
1317748905