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Record Nr.

UNISA996308827203316

Autore

Barron Carol

Titolo

Barriers to Play and Recreation for Children and Young People with Disabilities  / / Carol Barron, Angharad Beckett, Marieke Coussens, Annemie Desoete, Nan Cannon Jones, Helen Lynch, Maria Prellwitz, Deborah Fenney Salkeld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2017

Warsaw ; ; Berlin : , : De Gruyter Open Poland, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

3-11-052604-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Classificazione

DK 2000

Disciplina

305.231087

Soggetti

Accessibility

Barriers

Disability

Exclusion

Inequality

Play

Rights

Social Attitudes

Useability

Kind

Behinderung

Vorschulerziehung

Online-Ressource

SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Biography -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Overview of Play Studies -- 3 The Right to Play -- 4 Definition of Disability -- 6 Methodology -- 7 Findings -- 8 Discussion and Conclusion -- 9 Recommendations -- References



Sommario/riassunto

This report reviews international research into the barriers to play for children with disabilities. The authors come from different disciplinary backgrounds, in Sociology, Social Policy, Anthropology, Occupational Health and Education and bring different concerns to this review. They are united, however, in their adoption of a rights-based perspective. The UNCRC and UNCRPD emphasise the right to play for children with disabilities. Play is vital for child development. The problem of 'play deprivation' for many children with disabilities is very real. Yet the right to, and value of 'play for the sake of play', for fun and recreation, must not be forgotten in relation to the lives of children with disabilities. The focus in this report is upon barriers to play that exist beyond the minds and bodies of individual children, within a 'disabling' environment. Barriers include those associated with the design of the built environment, social attitudes and professional practices. The report maps an agenda for further research in this area, emphasising the need for participatory methodologies that capture the views and voices of children with disabilities, their friends and families, on this important issue of play.