Research Catalog

Title

Disabled children : challenging social exclusion / Laura Middleton.

Author

Middleton, Laura

Publication

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Sciences, 1999.

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Details

Series Statement

Working together for children, young people, and their families

Uniform Title

Working together for children, young people, and their families.

Subject

• Children with disabilities > Services for
• Children with disabilities > Social conditions
• Social work with children with disabilities
• Marginality, Social

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Children's Voices -- Hopes, Wishes and Dreams -- Families -- Making Friends -- Adult Abusers -- Failure to Protect -- Growing up in care: Alice's story -- Education -- Choices and rights -- Medical Interventions -- Images of disability -- Messages -- Discussion: a disability rights issue? -- Ways forward -- Summary and conclusion -- 2. Building Disadvantage -- Introduction -- The political lead -- Section I. Abnormalisation -- the creation of special need -- Health care services -- Education -- Welfare services -- The independent /statutory divide -- Section II. Explanations for the exclusion of disabled children -- The survival of the fittest -- Conclusion -- 3. Conceptual Frameworks -- The SEAwall -- The NVQ model -- The 3-D Jigsaw -- 4. The Professional and Personal Challenge -- Introduction -- Attitudes and values -- Working with disabled children -- Changing professional behaviour -- Good practitioners /good practice -- Conclusion -- 5. Organisational Change -- Introduction -- Section I. Valued-based organisations -- Consulting service users -- Valuing staff -- Section II. The seamless service -- Community care: health and social services -- Working together -- Towards inclusive education -- Conclusion -- 6. Disabled Children: Excluded Citizens? -- Introduction -- Disabled children and citizenship -- Strategies for change -- The research relationship -- The role of disabled adults -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Research Studies Cited in the text -- Appendix 2. Letter to theSocial Exclusion Unit -- Appendix 3. The Process of Assessment.

ISBN

0632050551 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^99034782^

OCLC

• 41476837
• SCSB-11970244

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library