ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapter of this book. The book presents some themes and issues discussed in the previous chapters and then makes recommendations for making participation rights a reality for every disabled child. It focuses on the importance of recognising how the disabled child can become a causal agent in their own life, before moving on to highlighting examples of good practice in order to gauge the scope that disabled children actually have to exercise their agency. The book also focuses to the role that disabled children can and do play in research and policy development. It describes the importance of adults staff in service-providing organisations as well as parents and other family members becoming aware of disabled children's participation rights and to be trained in how to make them happen. Parents of disabled children and other primary caregivers do not receive formal training like professionals and other staff in service-providing organisations.