Resultaten voor 'anne marie callus'

The Lives of Children and Adolescents with Disabilities

This book will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in disability studies, childhood studies, medicine and health sciences, and sociology. It also provides insights that will be of use and value to professionals working with disabled children and adolescents in education, health and in disability-specific services.

The Routledge International Handbook of Children's Rights and Disability

This handbook provides authoritative and cutting-edge analyses of various aspects of the rights and lives of disabled children around the world.

1. Anne-Marie Callus
2. Ruth Farrugia

The Disabled Child's Participation Rights

Anne-Marie Callus is Lecturer in the Faculty of Laws at the University of Malta, Malta. She is also Executive Director of the National Commission for Persons with Disability in Malta. Ruth Farrugia is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Laws at the University of Malta, Malta. She is a legal consultant to Malta's Commissioner for Children and was was commissioned by the Maltese governement to draft both the gender Equality Act and the Children's Act.

1. Anne-Marie Callus
2. Ruth Farrugia

The Disabled Child's Participation Rights

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is the only UN treaty in which the people who are its target, that is disabled people, were actively involved in its drafting. This book focuses on the participation rights of the disabled child with regard to health, education, homelife and relationships.

1. Anne-Marie Callus

Becoming Self-Advocates

People with intellectual disability cannot assume that they can speak up for and represent themselves. A host of socially-constructed factors act as barriers to their becoming self-advocates. This book analyses the nature of these factors and investigates how the label ‘intellectual disability’ is understood and interpreted.