Disabled Childhoods: Monitoring Differences and Emerging Identities : Routledge : 9780415749749 : 0415749743 : 15 Feb 2016 : A crucial contemporary dynamic around children and young people in the Global North is the multiple ways that have emerged to monitor their development, behaviour and character. In particular disabled children or children with unusual developmental patterns can find themselves surrounded by multiple practices through which they are examined. This rich book draws on a wide range of qualitative research to look at how disabled children have been cared for, treated and categorised. Narrative and longitudinal interviews with children and their families, along with stories and images they have produced and notes from observations of different spaces in their lives ? medical consultation rooms, cafes and leisure centres, homes, classrooms and playgrounds amongst others ? all make a contribution. Bringing this wealth of empirical data together with conceptual idea