The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children's Childhood Studies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Runswick-Cole, Katherine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Curran, Tillie (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Liddiard, Kirsty (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: People with disabilities.; Childhood.; Adolescence.; Social groups.; Family.; Disability Studies.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.

Disabled children's lives have often been discussed through medical concepts of disability rather than concepts of childhood. Western understandings of childhood have defined disabled children against child development 'norms' and have provided the rationale for segregated or 'sp...