ABSTRACT
Children with disabilities are often parented by non-disabled people. Through their contact with medical professionals during the diagnosis process, parents may adopt a medical model outlook that may remain unchallenged throughout the child’s life. Subsequently, this medicalised outlook on disability impacts how non-disabled parents view and care for their child. We see this problem also in the queer community; queer children are born to heterosexual couples with limited knowledge of queer identity. Using the voices of queer and disabled people as published in existing literature, this chapter interrogates the situation of children with disability born to parents who prescribe to a medical model of disability.
