Allies and obstacles : disability activism and parents of children with disabilities / Allison C. Carey, Pamela Block, and Richard K. Scotch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carey, Allison C., author.

Block, Pamela, author.

Scotch, Richard K., 1951- author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Frances C. Thielbar Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parents of children with mental disabilities.

Parents of children with disabilities.

Children with mental disabilities--Civil rights.

Children with mental disabilities.

Children with mental disabilities--Social conditions.

Pressure groups.

Civil rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 334 pages)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2020.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction

Intellectual disability and parent activism

Psychiatric diagnosis, disability, and parent activism

Autistic identity and parent activism

Physical disability and parent activism

Timing, factors affecting the emergence of parent

Frames and positions within the field of disability activism

Social movement strategies and public policy

Narratives of rights

Parents, children, and advocacy across life transitions

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 04, 2020).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Frances C. Thielbar Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Carey, Allison C.. Allies and obstacles

ISBN:

9781439916346

1439916349

Publisher Number:

99985480497

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.