Autism and the Family in Urban India: Looking Back, Looking Forward 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Vaidya, Shubhangi (Author) |
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ISBN: 813223605X ISBN-13: 9788132236054 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family - Psychology | Developmental - General - Education | Educational Psychology |
Dewey: 155 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.99 lbs) 180 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |