Barriers to Play and Recreation for Children and Young People with Disabilities: Exploring Environmental Factors

Carol Barron; Angharad Beckett; Marieke Coussens; Annemie Desoete; Nan Cannon Jones; Helen Lynch; Maria Prellwitz; Deborah Fenney Salkeld

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2017

Barriers to Play and Recreation for Children and Young People with Disabilities

Exploring Environmental Factors

Carol Barron , Angharad Beckett , Marieke Coussens , Annemie Desoete , Nan Cannon Jones , Helen Lynch , Maria Prellwitz and Deborah Fenney Salkeld

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110526042

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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.

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Carol Barron, Angharad Beckett,Marieke Coussens,Annemie Desoete, Nan Cannon Jones, Helen Lynch, Maria Prellwitz,Deborah Fenney Salkeld

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Biography Open Access Download PDF	VII
1 Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
2 Overview of Play Studies Open Access Download PDF	3
3 The Right to Play Open Access Download PDF	6
4 Definition of Disability Open Access Download PDF	11
6 Methodology Open Access Download PDF	17
7 Findings Open Access Download PDF	19
8 Discussion and Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	26
9 Recommendations Open Access Download PDF	29
References Open Access Download PDF	31

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Audience: Occupational Therapists; Educationalists; Social Workers; Youth Workers; Play Workers;
Pages
- Main content: 50
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 1
Keywords: Play; Exclusion; Inequality; Rights; Disability; Barriers; Social Attitudes; Accessibility; Useability

eBook

Published: June 12, 2017
ISBN: 9783110526042

Hardcover

Published: June 12, 2017
ISBN: 9783110526035