Childhood Disability, Advocacy, and Inclusion in the Caribbean: A Trinidad and Tobago Case Study

by Beth Harry

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030238571
• ISBN13: 9783030238575
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"