This collection provides a comprehensive insight into disabled children and youth in Nordic countries. It seeks to understand the experiences of children from their own perspectives and takes a multidisciplinary approach grounded in the new social studies of childhood and the Nordic relational approach to disability.

This book is eminently readable and offers a wealth of knowledge to inform occupational therapy researchers and practitioners who work with disabled children and their families. Occupational therapy students interested in paediatric interventions will find this book a particularly useful resource to complement biomedical knowledge and enrich their understanding of the complexities involved in providing familycentred service. (Gail Teachman, Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2015)

"In this dynamic and interdisciplinary text the authors have succeeded in substantively addressing questions associated with theory, identity, inclusion, access and family as they intersect with the lives of disabled children. While this work emerges from the Nordic context, the significant themes and findings of the book will resonate with disabilityresearchers, activists and policy makers across the globe." (Dan Goodley, University of Sheffield, UK)

Autorentext
Karin Barron, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Steen Bengtsson, SFI The Danish National Institute of Social Research, Denmark Anders Gustavsson, Stockholm University, Sweden Helle Hansen, The National Danish Centre for Social Research's Trials Unit, Denmark Helena Hemmingsson, Linköping University, Sweden Anna Kittelsaa, NTNU Social Research, Norway Catarina Nyberg, Stockholm University, Sweden Maria Lomborg Røgeskov, University of Copenhagen and The National Danish Centre for Social Research, Denmark Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir, University of Iceland, Iceland Tom Shakespeare, University of East Anglia Medical School, UK Eiríkur Smith, University of Iceland, Iceland Jan Tøssebro, NTNU Social Research and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Simo Vehmas, University of Helsinki, Finland Christian Wendelborg, NTNU Social Research, Norway

Inhalt
Foreword; Tom Shakespeare Introduction: Disabled Children and Youth in the Nordic Countries; Snæfrídur Th. Egilson; Borgunn Ytterhus; Rannveig Traustadóttir; Berit Berg PART I: THEORIES AND HISTORY 1. Perspectives on Childhood and Disability; Borgunn Ytterhus; Snæfrídur Th. Egilson; Rannveig Traustadóttir; Berit Berg 2. Disabled Children and Welfare Policy in the Nordic Countries: Historical notes; Jan Tøssebro 3. Inclusion, Diagnostics, and Diversity: Ethical Considerations; Simo Vehmas PART II: IDENTITY AND IMAGES 4. 'I'm different, but I am like everyone else' the Dynamics of Disability Identity; Anders Gustavsson; Catarina Nyberg 5. Childhood Disability, Identity and the Body; Eiríkur Smith; Rannveig Traustadóttir 6. Ethnicity, Disability and Identity; Anna Kittelsaa 7. Cultural Representation of Disability in Children's Literature; Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir PART III: INTERACTION AND INCLUSION 8. Interaction and Belonging in Preschool; Karin Barron 9. Norwegian Preschools as Integrating Institutions? Disabled Children in Preschool 1999-2009; Borgunn Ytterhus 10. Interacting Technology and Social Participation; Helena Hemmingsson 11. A Comparison of Social Life Among 11-year-old Disabled Children and 11 Year-olds in General; Maria Røgeskov; Helle Hansen; Steen Bengtsson PART IV: FAMILIES AND SERVICES 12. Growing up with Disability: Family Perspective; Jan Tøssebro; Christian Wendelborg 13. Immigration and Disability: Minority Families with Disabled Children; Berit Berg 14. Services to Disabled Children and their Families: User Perspectives; Snæfríður Th. Egilson