Disabled Childhoods: Monitoring Differences and Emerging Identities (Routledge Advances in Disability Studies)

by Janice McLaughlin, Edmund Coleman-Fountain, and Emma Clavering

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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...

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  • ISBN10 113849450X
  • ISBN13 9781138494503
  • Publish Date 22 January 2018 (first published 5 February 2016)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Imprint Routledge
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 186
  • Language English
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