| 期刊全称 | Autism and the Family in Urban India | | 期刊简称 | Looking Back, Lookin | | 影响因子2023 | Shubhangi Vaidya | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | 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 | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | .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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