Disability remains on the margins of the social sciences. Even where disability is
foregrounded as a category of analysis, accounts regularly emerge in silos, with little …

This paper introduces a framework of five consecutive but potentially intersecting tropes of
representation of intellectual disabilities. The framework was developed in a post-qualitative …

Genetic counseling about Down syndrome is suggested to include information on a future
family life. However, there is an insufficient knowledge on the potential impact of parenting a …

Abstract The 'expressivist objection'(EO) refers to the notion that using reproductive (genetic)
technologies to prevent the birth of future would‐be disabled people contain, and express, a …

Background The meanings of neurodevelopmental conditions are socially and culturally
defined. We explored how parents of a child with Down syndrome experienced public and …

Our current understanding of adaptation in families of individuals with Down syndrome (DS)
is based primarily on findings from studies focused on participants from a single country …

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The aim of the article is to show the degree of saturation with
disability-related content and the ways of its presentation in series, television programs and …

Down's syndrome (DS) occupies a curious position in the public imaginary in the United
Kingdom. There is a growing public, and positive, presence of people with DS in cultural …

Children with learning disabilities often require greater levels of support from their parents
than other children. However, there can be differences in the caring experiences of mothers …

Museums have the potential to challenge societal prejudice, presenting new perspectives
and counternarratives which support social inclusion and activism (Janes and Sandell 2019 …