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Resilience in the Lives of Disabled Children: A Many Splendoured Thing

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  • Traditional models of resilience have often suggested that disabled children cannot be resilient.

  • Resilience is often conceptualised as an individual trait or quality of a human being.

  • We understand resilience as the dynamic interplay of the human and a host of resources around them.

  • Disabled children’s resilience is boosted through their networks and access to a host of resources including community participation and acceptance which seek to promote positive identities.

  • Disabled children experience their bodies and minds in ways that are deeply embedded in cultural scripts and societal stories of disability.

  • In the context of economic crisis and austerity measures, resources that support disabled children’s resilience are under threat.

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  1. The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Katherine Runswick-Cole & Rebecca Lawthom

  2. Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

    Dan Goodley

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  1. The School of Education, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Katherine Runswick-Cole

  2. Department of Health and Social Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Tillie Curran

  3. The School of Education, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Kirsty Liddiard

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Runswick-Cole, K., Goodley, D., Lawthom, R. (2018). Resilience in the Lives of Disabled Children: A Many Splendoured Thing. In: Runswick-Cole, K., Curran, T., Liddiard, K. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54446-9_27

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