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Conductive education and the politics of disablement
- Author:
- READ Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(2), April 1998, pp.279-293.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses how conductive education has been characterised by some disabled academics as an intervention that is oppressive to disabled people. This article describes the practice of Conductive Education and its development in the United Kingdom and explores why it came to be perceived by some from within the disabled people's movement as contrary to their interests.
Disability, the family and society: listening to mothers
- Author:
- READ Janet
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 149p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Explores caring for a disabled child from the mother's perspective, looking at ways in which mothers find themselves acting as mediators between their children and a world that can be hostile to their interests. Begins with an examination of a study in which mothers from diverse backgrounds detail the ways in which they attempt to represent their children to the world, and the world to their children in both formal and informal interactions. These experiences and perspectives are linked to wider research and theory on motherhood and caring, the life patterns of disabled children and their families, and the discrimination faced by disabled children and adults.