ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the disabled child's participation rights within relationships entails the different relationships that disabled children foster in their daily lives. There are no specific articles in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) or the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) which deal directly with rights to relationships. These relationships are built within the family and the local community, in schools and other educational settings, when using health services, and in activities engaged in during leisure time. Issues related to the participation rights of older children with regards to relationships are also considered. The chapter then shifts attention to the role that adults play in the development of the disabled child's relationships. This leads to a discussion of how adults can create inclusive structures which support the development of the disabled child's agency and of more equitable relationships among disabled and non-disabled children and between disabled children and adults.
