This handbook provides authoritative and cutting-edge analyses of various aspects of the rights and lives of disabled children around the world.
Taking the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) as conceptual frameworks, this work appraises the current state of affairs concerning the rights of disabled children across different stages of childhood, different life domains, and different socio-cultural contexts.
The book is divided into four sections:
- Legislation and Policy
- Childrens Voice
- The Life Course in Childhood
- Life Domains in Childhood
Comprised of 37 newly commissioned chapters featuring analyses of UN documents and case studies from Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Vanuatu, its multidisciplinary approach reflects the complexities of the lives of disabled children and the multifarious nature of the strategies needed to ensure their rights are upheld.
It will be of interest to researchers and students working in disability studies, education, allied health, law, philosophy, play studies, social policy, and the sociology of childhood. It will also be a valuable resource for professionals/practitioners, allowing them to consider future directions for ensuring that disabled childrens rights are realised and their well-being and dignity are assured.
This handbook provides authoritative and cutting-edge analyses of various aspects of the rights and lives of disabled children around the world.
1.Introduction: Childrens Rights and Disability. Section One
Legislation and Policy. 2.The Human Rights Model for Children with
Disabilities. Vignette One Meet Aurora. 3.For the Full Incorporation of the
Rights of Children, With or Without Disabilities, Into the Human Rights
Model. 4.An Analysis of the UNCRPD Concluding Observations on the Rights of
Children with Disabilities. 5.They still need to listen more: Working in
partnership with disabled young researchers to inform and shape country
submissions to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
and UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. 6.Human Rights Through the Eyes
of Children with Disabilities. Vignette Two Meet Charlie. 7.Developing the
Right(s) Approach for Autism. 8.Poverty, Deprivation and Disabled Childrens
Right to Citizenship. 9.The Care Dependency Grant in South Africa: Challenges
on the road to inclusive rights. Section Two Childrens Voice.
10.Childrens Rights, Arts-based Methods and Gramscis Common Sense: The
possibilities of freedom. 11.Beyond the Spoken Word - Facilitating the
disabled childs voice through the Mosaic approach. Vignette Three Meet
Liv. 12.Disabled Childrens Participation in Healthcare Decision-Making.
13.Participation of Disabled Children in Health Guidelines Development.
14.The Right to an Active Voice Without Words: Co-creating knowledge in
special schools with Art Research Together. Vignette Four Meet Liam. 15.The
Rights of the Child When Symbolic Language is Out of Reach. 16.Do All
Children Have the Right to Express Views? Listening to differently-voiced
communicators. Section Three The Life Course in Childhood. 17.Babies with
Disabilities and Their Entitlement to Imagined Hopeful Futures. 18.Is
Disability a Justification to Undermine the Right to Life?. Vignette Five
Meet Ane. 19.Down Syndrome Abortion Bans: Law and ethics. 20.Clash of
Competing Rights in Surrogacy: Embryos, foetuses and children with a
disability. 21.Framing Does Matter: How health professionals can empower
disabled children and their families. 22.From Retarded Education to
Authentic Life: A Personal Education Retrospective. Vignette Six Meet
Michaela. 23.Design as an Agent of Children's Rights? Inclusive mobility
design for children with disabilities. 24.Assistive Technologies as Rights
Enablers. 25.Look At UsWere Walking: Parental advocacy v. a childs
privacy in the age of internet sharing. 26.An Open Exploration Around
End-of-Life Journeys for Children Facing Terminal Illness/Severe Disability.
Section Four Life Domains in Childhood. 27.The Changing Landscape of
Inclusive Education: A shift toward universal design for learning. Vignette
Seven Meet ina. 28.Lawfare and the Role of Civil Society on Promoting
the Inclusive Education Public Policy in Brazil. 29.A Certain Kind of
Freedom, a Certain Subject of Right. The disability dispositif of inclusion
and the government of the disabled child in the Italian education system.
30.Social Justice and Language Rights for Deaf Children. 31.Through the Eyes
of Children with Disabilities: Recognising childrens agency in their play in
inclusive playspaces. 32.Disabled Childrens Access to Music. Musics
transformational potential and music therapys dis/enabling role in making
music accessible. Vignette Eight Meet Euletta. 33.The Right to Grow
Together: Exploring the roles of community agents in providing support for
early adolescents with disabilities to make friends and join groups. 34.Sex,
Love, and Human Rights: Sexual rights for children and youth experiencing
disability. 35.Who is Worthy of Rights? An analysis of children living at the
intersections of disability, citizenship and migration in the United States
and Italy. 36.The Right to Safety: Promoting the authority of disabled
children to tackle rights resistance. 37.Ceci n'est pas un dénouement | This
is not a conclusion.
Angharad E. Beckett is Professor of Political Sociology and Social Inclusion and Director of Research and Innovation at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds. She is a member of the interdisciplinary Centre for Disability Studies at the University, where she was for many years a joint Director. Her research interests include disability theory and politics, the resistance practices of the disabled peoples movement, inclusive education, and play/leisure for disabled children and young people. She teaches Disability Studies at undergraduate and postgraduate level and has supervised many doctoral students in this field. She founded and is Co-Chair of the Editorial Executive for the open-access International Journal of Disability and Social Justice.
Anne-Marie Callus is Associate Professor in the Department of Disability Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta. She lectures, researches, and has published on disability rights, empowerment of persons with intellectual disability, inclusive education and disabled childrens rights, as well as cultural representations of persons with disability. She is Deputy Editor of Disability & Society.
