期刊全稱 | Autism and the Family in Urban India | 期刊簡稱 | Looking Back, Lookin | 影響因子2023 | Shubhangi Vaidya | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/167/166057/166057.mp4 | 發(fā)行地址 | First book-length study of autism and the family in India.Studies issues in sociology of the family that have received scant scholarly attention.Benefits parents and other stakeholders to gain a bette | 圖書封面 |  | 影響因子 | .The book explores the lived reality of parenting and caring for children with autism in contemporary urban India. It is based on a qualitative, ethnographic study of families of children with autism as they negotiate the tricky terrain of identifying their child s disability, obtaining a diagnosis, accessing appropriate services and their on-going efforts to come to terms with and make sense of their child s unique subjectivity and mode of being. It examines the gendered dimensions of coping and care-giving and the differential responses of mothers and fathers, siblings and grandparents and the extended family network to this complex and often extremely challenging condition.?. The book tackles head on the sombre question, What will happen to the child after the parents are gone ? It also critically examines the role of the state, civil society and legal and institutional frameworks in place in India and undertakes a case study of Action for Autism ; a Delhi-based NGO set upby parents of children with autism. ?This book also draws upon the author s own engagement with her child’ s disability and thus lends an authenticity born out of lived experience and in-depth understanding. It | Pindex | Book 2016 |
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