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Parents with intellectual disabilities : past, present and futures /

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Parents with Intellectnal Disabilities is a thoughful and comprehensive collection by an international team that blazes new trails for inclusion and equality for adults with intellectual disabilites. By asserting that forming a family and parenting are pathways both to social value and personal fulf...

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Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Other Authors: Llewellyn, Gwynnyth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Subjects:
Parents with mental disabilities > Cross-cultural studies.
Parenting > Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Rannveig Traustadóttir, David McConnell and Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir
  • Part I: Family and Community Life
  • Becoming a Mother
  • Becoming a Father / Rachel Mayes and Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir
  • Looking Back on Their Own Upbringing / Gwynnyth Llewellyn and David McConnell
  • Family Within a Family / Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir and Rannveig Traustadóttir
  • Children and Their Life Experiences / Jytte Faureholm
  • Understanding Community in the Lives of Parents with Intellectual Disabilities / Gwynnyth Llewellyn and Marie Gustavsson
  • Citizenship and Community Participation / Brigit Mirfin-Veitch
  • Parenting and Resistance: Strategies in Dealing with Services and Professionals / Rannveig Traustadóttir and Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir
  • Part II: Human Services Enabling and Disabling Parents with Intellectual Disabilities
  • Parenting Education Programs / Maurice Feldman
  • Supported Decision Making for Women with Intellectual Disabilities / Sue McGaw and Sue Candy
  • Turning Policy Into Practice / Beth Tarleton
  • Caught in the Child Protection Net / David McConnell and Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir
  • Turning Rights into Realities in Québec, Canada / Marjorie Aunos, Laura Pacheco and Katherine Moxness
  • Supporting Mothers' Community Participation / David McConnell and Gwynnyth Llewellyn
  • Advocacy for Change: The Final Tool in the Toolbox? / Linda Ward and Beth Tarleton
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  • Conclusion: Taking Stock and Looking to the Future.