Childhood Disability, Advocacy, and Inclusion in the Caribbean

A Trinidad and Tobago Case Study

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvBeth Harry

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This book presents an ethnographic case study of the personal motivations, advocacy, and activation of social capital needed to create and sustain the Immortelle Children’s Centre, a private school that has served children with disabilities in Trinidad/Tobago for four decades.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-10-18
Mått148 x 210 x 22 mm
Vikt518 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Disability and International Development
Antal sidor283
Upplaga19001
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030238575

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1. Chapter 1 Historical and Cultural Influences on Education Policy and Disability Services.- 2. Chapter 2 The Immortelle: Planting, Nurturing, and Growing.- 3. Chapter 3 Original Parents’ Stories: From “Something not right here” to “She’s wonderful!”.- 4. Chapter 4 Forty Years Later: Current Parents – From “Something not Right Here to “We Need Systems!”.- 5. Chapter 5 “Trinidad is Nice, Trinidad is a Paradise”: Navigating negativity and creating love.- 6. Chapter 6 Sustaining the Immortelle: “You Have to Love What You Do”.- 7. Chapter 7 Building a Community of Advocates: Seeking Unity in Diversity.- 8. Chapter 8 Health and Education: Seeking an Explicit Place on the Agenda.- 9. Chapter 9 Trinidad and Tobago in a Liminal Space.