Childhood and Disability in the Nordic Countries Being, Becoming, Belonging [Paperback]

This collection provides a comprehensive insight into disabled children and youth in Nordic countries. It seeks to understand the experiences of children from their own perspectives and takes a multidisciplinary approach grounded in the new social studies of childhood and the Nordic relational approach to disability.Foreword; Tom Shakespeare Introduction: Disabled Children and Youth in the Nordic Countries; Sn?fr?dur Th. Egilson; Borgunn Ytterhus; Rannveig Traustad?ttir; Berit Berg PART I: THEORIES AND HISTORY 1. Perspectives on Childhood and Disability; Borgunn Ytterhus; Sn?fr?dur Th. Egilson; Rannveig Traustad?ttir; Berit Berg 2. Disabled Children and Welfare Policy in the Nordic Countries: Historical notes; Jan T?ssebro 3. Inclusion, Diagnostics, and Diversity: Ethical Considerations; Simo Vehmas PART II: IDENTITY AND IMAGES 4. 'I'm different, but I am like everyone else'  the Dynamics of Disability Identity; Anders Gustavsson; Catarina Nyberg 5. Childhood Disability, Identity and the Body; Eir?kur Smith; Rannveig Traustad?ttir 6. Ethnicity, Disability and Identity; Anna Kittelsaa 7. Cultural Representation of Disability in Children's Literature; Hanna Bj?rg Sigurj?nsd?ttir PART III: INTERACTION AND INCLUSION 8. Interaction and Belonging in Preschool; Karin Barron 9. Norwegian Preschools as Integrating Institutions? Disabled Children in Preschool 1999-2009; Borgunn Ytterhus 10. Interacting Technology and Social Participation; Helena Hemmingsson 11. A Comparison of Social Life Among 11-year-old Disabled Children and 11 Year-olds in General; Maria R?geskov; Helle Hansen; Steen Bengtsson PART IV: FAMILIES AND SERVICES 12. Growing up with Disability: Family Perspective; Jan T?ssebro; Christian Wendelborg 13. Immigration and Disability: Minority Families with Disabled Children; Berit Berg 14. Services to Disabled Children and their Families: User Perspectives; Sn?fr??ur Th. Egilson

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