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Author Harry, Beth, author.

Title Childhood disability, advocacy, and inclusion in the Caribbean : a Trinidad and Tobago case study / Beth Harry
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource : color illustrations
Series Palgrave studies in disability and international development
Palgrave studies in disability and international development.
Summary This book presents an ethnographic case study of the personal motivations, advocacy, and activation of social capital needed to create and sustain the Immortelle Children's Centre, a private school that has served children with disabilities in Trinidad/Tobago for four decades. Based on narratives by parents from the 1980's, current parents, teachers, community advocates, and the author, who was the founder of Immortelle in 1978, the study views the school within the context of a nation standing in a liminal space between developed and developing societies. It argues that the attainment of equity for children with disabilities will require an agenda that includes a legal mandate for education of all children, increased public funding for education, health and therapeutic services, and an on-going public awareness campaign. Relating this study to the global debate on inclusion, the author shows how the implementation of this agenda would have to be adapted to the social, cultural, and economic realities of the society
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Subject Immortelle Children's Centre
Special education -- Trinidad and Tobago
Special education -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Case studies
Education and state -- Trinidad and Tobago
Education and state -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Case studies
Special education -- Economic aspects -- Trinidad and Tobago
Educational equalization -- Trinidad and Tobago
Children with disabilities -- Education -- Trinidad and Tobago
Children with disabilities -- Education
Education and state
Educational equalization
Special education
Special education -- Economic aspects
Trinidad and Tobago
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030238582
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