Belonging for People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities

Melanie Nind is Professor of Education at the University of Southampton, UK, where she is Director of the Centre for Research in Inclusion. Iva Strnadová is Professor of Special Education and Disability Studies at the University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia.

1 Changes in the lives of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities Part I Belonging in education Fellow Traveller Account 1: Belonging and segregation – the oxymoron of the special school 2 Exploring the situated social being of children with profound and multiple learning difficulties across educational contexts: A study of belonging 3 Inclusion and participation of students with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities 4 On "being" together as belonging: Inside Golden Tent Part II Belonging in research Fellow Traveller Account 2: Siblings belonging together 5 Crossing the wobbly bridge: An inclusive approach to researching playfulness and children with profound and multiple learning difficulties 6 A trip to the caves: Making life story work inclusive and accessible 7 Shifting the gaze: The use of wearable cameras in research Part III Belonging in communities Fellow Traveller Account 3: Are people with profound and multiple learning disabilities and their families welcome in the wider learning disability community? 8 Approaching a person with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities: What do you think, what do you do? 9 Singing together: Friends’ and families’ perspectives of possible ways to be included in society 10 Enabling people with profound and multiple learning disabilities to belong in public and community archive collections 11 Belonging and people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities: Pushing the boundaries