This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts oppose the gl

Disabled children’s lives have often been discussed through medical concepts of disability rather than concepts of childhood. Western understandings of childh

A crucial contemporary dynamic around children and young people in the Global North is the multiple ways that have emerged to monitor their development, behavio

This book introduces current theories and research on disability, and builds on the premise that disability has to be understood from the dialectical dynamics o

This book examines the relationship between contemporary cultural representations of disabled children on the one hand, and disability as a personal experience