Parents with Intellectual Disabilities : Past, Present and Futures

by Editor: Gwynnyth Llewellyn (Professor and Dean University of Sydney); Editor: Rannveig Traustadottir (University of Iceland); Editor: David McConnell (University of Alberta, Canada); Editor: Hanna Bjorg Sigurjonsdott (University of Iceland); Fore

• ISBN13: 9780470660409
• ISBN10: 0470660406
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-02-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The first international, cross-disciplinary book to explore and understand the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities, their children, and the systems and services they encounter Presents a unique, pan-disciplinary overview of this growing field of study Offers a human rights approach to disability and family life Informed by the newly adopted UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) Provides comprehensive research-based knowledge from leading figures in the field of intellectual disability

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Family and Community Life

Becoming a Mother - Becoming a Father

Looking Back on Their Own Upbringing

Family Within a Family

Children and Their Life Experiences

Understanding Community in the Lives of Parents with Intellectual Disabilities

Citizenship and Community Participation

Parenting and Resistance: Strategies in Dealing with Services and Professionals

Human Services Enabling and Disabling Parents With Intellectual Disabilities

Parenting Education Programs

Supported Decision Making forWomen with Intellectual Disabilities

Turning Policy Into Practice

Caught in the Child Protection Net

Turning Rights into Realities in Quebec, Canada

Supporting Mothers' Community Participation

Advocacy for Change: "The Final Tool in the Toolbox?"

Conclusion: Taking Stock and Looking to the Future

Index

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