ABSTRACT
This chapter arises from several hours that Sarah Beazley spent talking with children whose parents are Deaf.2 Their thoughts on family life suggest that they consider daily life at home as ordinary and, contrary to the public image of children whose parents are disabled, have no thought of themselves as martyrs. Their accounts do, however, illustrate the ways in which society not only puts up barriers round parents who have impairments but also disables their families in the process (Beazley and Moore, 1995; Corker, 1996; Moore, Beazley and Maelzer, forthcoming; Oliver, 1990, 1996).
