ABSTRACT
Arguably, the world is changing for children with disabilities. After decades of being invisible in their homes, communities, and countries, there is more impetus than ever to recognize children with disabilities as subject of rights (Sabatello, 2013). National laws and international policies are increasingly adopted to address many of the challenges children with disabilities encounter in their daily life, from poverty to education, access to health care, and full social inclusion. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has played an instrumental role in these developments (CRPD, 2006). The Convention’s shift from a medical, deficientbased approach to disability, which centers on need for “fixing” individuals, to a social, barrierbased model and its focus on abilities and supports rather than inabilities and individuals’ deficiencies brought to the fore the need for a societal-level recourse.
