1st Edition

The Routledge International Handbook of Children's Rights and Disability

Edited By Angharad E. Beckett, Anne-Marie Callus Copyright 2023
718 Pages 53 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

718 Pages 53 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

718 Pages 53 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This handbook provides authoritative and cutting-edge analyses of various aspects of the rights and lives of disabled children around the world. Taking the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) as conceptual frameworks, this work appraises the current state of affairs concerning the rights of disabled children... Read more

Preface
Gerard Quinn

Chapter One – Introduction: Children’s Rights and Disability
Anne-Marie Callus and Angharad E. Beckett

Section One – Legislation and Policy

Chapter Two – The Human Rights Model for Children with Disabilities
Jonas Ruškus

Vignette One – Meet Aurora
Aurora

Chapter Three – For the Full Incorporation of the Rights of Children, With or Without Disabilities, Into the Human Rights Model
Ignacio Campoy Cervera

Chapter Four – An Analysis of the UNCRPD Concluding Observations on the Rights of Children with Disabilities
Bronagh Byrne

Chapter Five – ‘They still need to listen more’: Working in partnership with disabled young researchers to inform and shape country submissions to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Anita Franklin and Zara Todd

Chapter Six – Human Rights Through the Eyes of Children with Disabilities
Elena Jenkin, Erin Wilson, Robert Campain, Kevin Murfitt and Matthew Clarke

Vignette Two – Meet Charlie
Charlie, with Lorna Hamilton

Chapter Seven – Developing the Right(s) Approach for Autism
Nick Hodge, Patty Douglas and Bronagh Byrne

Chapter Eight – Poverty, Deprivation and Disabled Children’s Right to Citizenship
Edgar Galea-Curmi

Chapter Nine – The Care Dependency Grant in South Africa: Challenges on the road to inclusive rights
Zara Trafford

Section Two – Children’s Voice

Chapter Ten – Children’s Rights, Arts-based Methods and Gramsci’s Common Sense: The possibilities of freedom
Francesca Bernardi

Chapter Eleven – Beyond the Spoken Word - Facilitating the disabled child’s voice through the Mosaic approach
Elvira Psaila

Vignette Three – Meet Liv
Liv, with Michael Rosenkratz

Chapter Twelve – Disabled Children’s Participation in Healthcare Decision-Making
Rados Keravica

Chapter Thirteen – Participation of Disabled Children in Health Guidelines Development
Kevin De Sabbata and Elena Syurina

Chapter Fourteen – The Right to an ‘Active Voice’ Without Words: Co-creating knowledge in special schools with Art Research Together
Karian Schuitema

Vignette Four – Meet Liam
Liam, with Jessica Wythe

Chapter Fifteen – The Rights of the Child When Symbolic Language is Out of Reach
Kristin Vindhol Evensen

Chapter Sixteen – Do All Children Have the Right to Express Views? Listening to ‘differently-voiced’ communicators
Lauran Doak

Section Three – The Life Course in Childhood

Chapter Seventeen – Babies with Disabilities and Their Entitlement to Imagined Hopeful Futures
Belinda Johnson

Chapter Eighteen – Is Disability a Justification to Undermine the Right to Life?
Begoña Rodríguez Díaz

Vignette Five – Meet Ane
Ane, with Heng-hao Chang and Meng-Hsuan Hsieh

Chapter Nineteen – Down Syndrome Abortion Bans: Law and ethics
Ryan H. Nelson and Jamie M. Crist

Chapter Twenty – Clash of Competing Rights in Surrogacy: Embryos, foetuses and children with a disability
JosAnn Cutajar

Chapter Twenty-one – Framing Does Matter: How health professionals can empower disabled children and their families
Claire Reinhardt and Amy Robasse

Chapter Twenty-two – From ‘Retarded’ Education to Authentic Life: A Personal Education Retrospective
Tammy Bachrach and Timothy Woods

Vignette Six – Meet Michaela
Michaela, with Clíona de Bhailís

Chapter Twenty-three – Design as an Agent of Children's Rights? Inclusive mobility design for children with disabilities
Cara Shaw and Farnaz Nickpour

Chapter Twenty-four – Assistive Technologies as Rights Enablers
Pedro Encarnação and Albert M. Cook

Chapter Twenty-five – ‘Look At Us…We’re Walking’: Parental advocacy v. a child’s privacy in the age of internet sharing
Stephanie Patterson and Kathleen McGoldrick

Chapter Twenty-six – An Open Exploration Around End-of-Life Journey’s for Children Facing Terminal Illness/Severe Disability
Caroline Ellison, Clara Chapman Van Duivenbode, Fiona Buchanan and Nicole Moulding

Section Four – Life Domains in Childhood

Chapter Twenty-seven – The Changing Landscape of Inclusive Education: A shift toward universal design for learning
Frederic Fovet

Vignette Seven – Meet Ġinġa
Ġinġa, with Georgette Bajada

Chapter Twenty-eight – ‘Lawfare’ and the Role of Civil Society on Promoting the Inclusive Education Public Policy in Brazil
Rodrigo Hübner Mendes and Luiza Andrade Corrêa

Chapter Twenty-nine – A Certain Kind of Freedom, a Certain Subject of Right. The disability dispositif of inclusion and the government of the disabled child in the Italian education system
Francesca Peruzzo

Chapter Thirty – Social Justice and Language Rights for Deaf Children
Tom Humphries, Gaurav Mathur, Donna Jo Napoli and Christian Rathmann

Chapter Thirty-one – Through the Eyes of Children with Disabilities: Recognising children’s agency in their play in inclusive playspaces
Jenene Burke and Lisa Stafford

Chapter Thirty-two – Disabled Children’s Access to Music. Music’s transformational potential and music therapy’s dis/enabling role in making music accessible
Maren Metell

Vignette Eight – Meet Euletta
Euletta and Begoña Rodriguez

Chapter Thirty-three – The Right to Grow Together: Exploring the roles of community agents in providing support for early adolescents with disabilities to make friends and join groups
Gemma Diaz Garolera, Maria Pallisera Díaz and Judit Fullana Noell

Chapter Thirty-four – Sex, Love, and Human Rights: Sexual rights for children and youth experiencing disability
Michelle Janzen

Chapter Thirty-five – Who is Worthy of Rights? An analysis of children living at the intersections of disability, citizenship and migration in the United States and Italy
Valentina Migliarini and Chelsea Stinson

Chapter Thirty-six – The Right to Safety: Promoting the authority of disabled children to tackle rights resistance
Sally Robinson and Jan Idle

Chapter Thirty-seven – Ceci n'est pas un dénouement | This is not a conclusion
Angharad E. Beckett and Anne-Marie Callus

Biography

Angharad E. Beckett is Professor of Political Sociology and Social Inclusion and Director of Research and Innovation at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds. She is a member of the interdisciplinary Centre for Disability Studies at the University, where she was for many years a joint Director. Her research interests include disability theory and politics, the resistance practices of the disabled people’s movement, inclusive education, and play/leisure for disabled children and young people. She teaches Disability Studies at undergraduate and postgraduate level and has supervised many doctoral students in this field. She founded and is Co-Chair of the Editorial Executive for the open-access International Journal of Disability and Social Justice.

Anne-Marie Callus is Associate Professor in the Department of Disability Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta. She lectures, researches, and has published on disability rights, empowerment of persons with intellectual disability, inclusive education and disabled children’s rights, as well as cultural representations of persons with disability. She is Deputy Editor of Disability & Society.