Browsing Social Studies by Subject "Disability"
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19 Stories of Social Inclusion Ireland: Stories of Belonging, Contributing and Connecting
(National Disability Authority, 2019)Irish disability policy, in line with international treaties such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), aims to support people with intellectual disabilities to live included ... -
Attention to disability in child protection policies across four liberal welfare regimes.
(2024)How child protection and welfare policies address the disability community is a matter of utmost importance and urgency in the context of well-established inequalities. We present a policy content analysis of national ... -
Convergent spaces: Intersectional analysis of ethnic minority status and childhood disability in Irish safeguarding work
(2020)The core argument of this paper is that intersectionality provides a constructive conceptual lens for the convergence of ethnic minority status and childhood disability in Irish child protection and welfare. The utility ... -
Corporeality and Critical Disability Studies: Toward an Informed Epistemology of Embodiment
(2021)This paper forms an intervention into debates about the corporeality of impairment and ‘bodies that matter’ in critical disability studies. Toward informing the epistemology of embodiment present in critical disability ... -
Critical disability studies and quarter life crisis: Theorising life stage transitional crisis for disabled emerging adults
(2022)This paper forms an intervention into existing literature on the life stage transitional crisis of emerging adulthood, commonly referred to as quarter life crisis. Whilst among existing analyses, aspects such as gender and ... -
Critical Disability Studies and the Affirmative Non-Tragedy Model: Presenting a Theoretical Frame for Disability and Child Protection
(2024)The purpose of this article is to present an integrated theoretical frame for the subject matter of disability and child protection. Substantive complexities, alluded to in existing literature, surround disability in child ... -
Critical Disability Studies, Corporeality and Child Maltreatment: Theorizing the Somatechnics of Self and Other.
(2023)This paper presents a bespoke postmodern reading of the corporeality and somatechnics of self and other. It situates itself within the transformative transdisciplinary space of critical disability studies. Therein, it ... -
Cut from the Same Cloth: A Comparative Policy Content Analysis of Disability in Child Protection and Welfare Policies within Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic
(2023)The isle of Ireland is both socio-politically and geographically divided. Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have distinct, siloed child protection and welfare systems owing to political severance in the early ... -
How Disability and Other Socio-Economic Factors Matter to Children?s Socio-Emotional Outcomes: Results from a Longitudinal Study Conducted in Ireland
(2020)Children with disabilities experience significantly poorer socio-emotional outcomes than their peers without disabilities. However, research evidence is scarce about children with both disability and migration background, ... -
Irish Intellectual Disability Services for Children and Austerity Measures: The Qualitative Impact of Recession through Framework Method
(2021)Intellectually disabled children experience unique vulnerabilities related to poverty. The literature further identifies strong concerns for service delivery and practice with intellectually disabled children in the context ... -
Journeys from discomfort to comfort: how do university students experience being taught and assessed by adults with intellectual disabilities?
(2021)From 2016-17, academics at a leading Irish university collaborated with a group of self- advocates with intellectual disabilities to co-design, co-deliver, and co-assess an entire disability module for third-year undergraduate ... -
Life Stories of the Economic Recession: Biographical Narrative Interpretative Method (BNIM) and the Lived Experience of Disability in Times of Austerity
(2019)In 2008, Ireland was impacted by global economic recession. Recession in Ireland was exceptionally severe and contrasted starkly to extraordinary prosperity immediately before. A comprehensive field of statistical data has ... -
Missing Links: The Somatechnics of Decolonisation
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A new-materialist reading of disability, senescence and the life-course
(2023)The purpose of this paper is to provide a new-materialist theoretical commentary on disability, senescence and the life-course. Critical literature review with deductive thematic analysis was undertaken using an electronic ... -
Strengths and Affirmations: Practitioners Views of Disability and Child Protection Through an Affirmative Lens
(2021)This article presents an exposition of an affirmative model of disability for child protection in Ireland. Seated at the intersection of disability and child protection are unique and substantial risks. In this paper, a ...