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The Palgrave handbook of disabled children's childhoods (2018)
Book

Disabled children’s lives have often been discussed through medical concepts of disability rather than concepts of childhood. Western understandings of childhood have defined disabled children against child development ‘norms’ and have provided the r... Read More about The Palgrave handbook of disabled children's childhoods.

Disabled Childhoods: Monitoring Differences and Emerging Identities [Book review] (2017)
Journal Article

Book Review

‘Rights indictors: Using disabled children’s childhood studies' (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper asks how disabled children’s childhood studies can inform the development of child rights indicators. The use of child development and the medical model of disability is generally justified on the grounds that they enable us to identify ch... Read More about ‘Rights indictors: Using disabled children’s childhood studies'.

Disabled children's childhoods: What are the research priorities? (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper discusses the discourses of childhood and disability to develop research questions that are concerned with disabled children's childhoods. The three principles proposed focus on the views of disabled children; discuss the ethics involved a... Read More about Disabled children's childhoods: What are the research priorities?.

Foucault and the government of disability (2016)
Journal Article

In this second edition of Foucault and the Government of Disability there are four new chap- ters in Part v, ‘Disability and Governmentality in the Present’, but it is a book worth reading from the start for the rst time and for the second time. Thi... Read More about Foucault and the government of disability.

The PMLD ambiguity: Articulating the life-worlds of children with profound and multiple learning disabilities (2015)
Journal Article

The PMLD Ambiguity questions the passive construction of children and adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) viewing PMLD people as having complex, dynamic and varied forms of shared and personal experience. It is based on Ben... Read More about The PMLD ambiguity: Articulating the life-worlds of children with profound and multiple learning disabilities.

Disabled children’s childhood studies: A distinct approach? (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, © 2014 Taylor & Francis. This paper suggests that the emergence of disabled children’s childhood studies as an area of study offers a distinct approach to inquiry; it represents a significant shift away from the long-standing deficit discou... Read More about Disabled children’s childhood studies: A distinct approach?.

Disabled children's childhood studies in a global context: Creative contributions to change (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We introduce the emergence of disabled children’s childhood studies; present stories about home, school, and community life by disabled children, parents, and disabled adults; and discuss ethical research toward change in a global context.

A critical analysis of workforce development research use in the transformation of children’s services (2014)
Journal Article

Summary: This article is based on a study commissioned to find out how agencies providing children’s services in England used workforce development research in the transformation of children’s services. Workforce development research is primarily abo... Read More about A critical analysis of workforce development research use in the transformation of children’s services.

Disabled children's childhood studies: Critical approaches in a global context (2013)
Book