Exploring parental experiences and practices associated with disabled children: From a disability studies perspective (Exploring parental experiences and practices associated with disabled children: From a disability studies perspective )

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Exploring parental experiences and practices associated with disabled children: From a disability studies perspective

Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
Abbr : JSPED
2010, 11(2), pp.281-309
Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
Research Area : Social Science > Education

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ABSTRACT

The aim of this paper is to conduct a critical review of the literature on disabled children and their families, with a focus on the parental experiences of disablement and practices associated with disabled children. Drawing in varying degrees on critical and emancipatory insights developed within disability studies, this paper problematizes the limited notions of disabling conditions of parenting a disabled child and constitutes a direct challenge to the traditional and pathological approaches prevalent in the literature. This paper argues that adopting the social model of disability approaches provides several vantage points in the sense of allowing the broader range of disablement facing families with disabled children to be visible and challenging the orthodox view that the disabled child makes the family disabled. It also argues that parental experiences and practices associated disabled children need to be reinterpreted as social-political matters, not simply psychological ones.

KEYWORDS

disability studies, disabled child, parental experiences of disablement, parental practices, disability embodied parenthood

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