Deaf Children, Their Families and Professionals

Plot

This book is about taking disablement out of the experience of children and their families. it focuses on deaf children and uses a valuable combination of what families say and discussion of topical issues about how disabling experiences can be avoided. Parents and children clearly reveal the social barriers to their lives as ordinary families, exemplified here by one mother's quote " you seem to have a double struggle don't you ?". Families have identified ways in which such barriers can start to be dismantled, and professionals and students in the field of education, health and social work are challenged to re-examine their own practices and beliefs with a view to maximizing enablement of vulnerable children and their families