This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts oppose the global imposition of problematic views of disability and childhood and instead, offer an open discussion of responsive and ethical research approaches.

This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts oppose the global imposition of problematic views of disability and childhood and instead, offer an open discussion of responsive and ethical research approaches.

PART I: VOICES FOR CREATIVE THEORY, POLICY AND PRACTICE 1. My Story; Stevie, Cath, Colin and Billie Tyrie 2. My Sister Stevie; Billie Tyrie 3. Simply Children; Frejya Haraldsdóttir 4. Thinking Outside Y/our Problem Box: Transitions?; Jo Skitteral 5. Mug or a Teacup and Saucer?; Linda Derbyshire PART II: CONTEMPORARY INQUIRIES 6. Doing Real World Research with Disabled Children: Issues and Challenges; David Abbott 7. Remembering School in Different Historical Worlds: Changing Patterns of Education in the Lives of Disabled Children and Young People; Sonali Shah 8. Disability and Childhood in Spaces of Poverty: Critical Perspectives on Guatemala; Shaun Grech 9. 'Wearing it all with a smile': Psycho-emotional Disablism in the Lives of Parents of Disabled Children; Katherine Runswick-Cole PART III: CONTEMPORARY THEORIES 10. Disabled Children's Childhood Studies: Alternative Relations and Forms of Authority; Tillie Curran 11. 'The Spectre of the Norm': Historicising the Notion of the 'Normal Child'; Harriet Cooper 12. Considerations for an African Childhood Disability Studies; Tsitsi Chataika and Judy Mckenzie 13. The Disavowal of Uncanny Disabled Children: Why Non-Disabled People are so Messed Up Around Childhood Disability; Dan Goodley and Rebecca Lawthom 14. Researching Youth in Neoliberal Times: the Importance of Including Disability; Jenny Slater 15. Concluding thoughts; Katherine Runswick-Cole and Tillie Curran