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This volume brings together a range of international contributors in order to explore new ways of researching with children with disabilities. It also investigates how scholars across a wide variety of disciplines are engaging with one other in innovative research and practice related to children´s engagement, participation, agency and voice.

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This volume brings together a range of international contributors to explore new ways of carrying out research with children with disabilities. It also investigates how scholars across a wide variety of disciplines are engaging with one another in innovative research and practice related to children´s engagement, participation, agency and voice. It includes perspectives from fields as diverse as psychology, early childhood studies, speech and language therapy (SLT), occupational science and therapy (OST), law, education and disability studies. A wide range of creative and practical methodologies for eliciting children´s voices are interrogated and articulated in the book, which will be of interest to both professionals and researchers.

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CONTENTS: Miriam Twomey/Clare Carroll: Introduction: Why voice and why now? - Kay M. Tisdall: Applying human rights to children´s participation in research - Mary Wickenden: "I have a lot to say!": A human rights perspective on recognizing the voices of disabled children globally - Elena Jenkin/Erin Wilson/Robert Campain/Matthew Clarke: Beyond childhood, disability and postcolonial theory: young children with disability in developing countries can tell their own story - Karen Watson: Researching among children: Exploring discourses and power in the "inclusive" early childhood classroom - Melanie Nind: Multimodal listening and attending to children with complex disabilities in educational settings - Ben Simmons: The phenomenology of intersubjectivity and research with profoundly disabled children: Developing an experiential framework for analysing lived social experiences - Miriam Twomey: Embodying voice: Children speak through their bodies - Martine M. Smith: Accessing the voices of children who use augmentative and alternative communication: Merits and perils of co-construction - Clare Carroll: Let me tell you about my rabbit! Listening to the needs and preferences of the child in early intervention - Helen Lynch: Beyond voice: An occupational science perspective on researching through doing - Maria Prellwitz/Helen Lynch: Universal Design for social inclusion: Playgrounds for all - Rena Lyons: Seen and heard: The voice of children with speech and developmental language disorders - Line Caes/Siobhán O´Higgins: Listen to us! The voices of young children with pain - Carolyn Blackburn: Young children´s use of private speech in early childhood settings: Moving from a deficit approach to a rights and agency approach - Nóirín Hayes: We are all in this together: Inclusive early childhood education - Clare Carroll/Miriam Twomey: Participation, engagement and voice: Where do we go from here?.

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"What are the necessary starting points for hearing directly from children with special needs or disabilities? For example, are there limits to children´s capacity and competence which preclude ´voice ´? Can we ever escape the social construction of children´s views? Miriam Twomey and Clare Carroll have, in addressing such knotty problems, created a treasure trove - highly relevant for interdisciplinary professionals and researchers internationally." (Professor Ann Lewis, University of Birmingham)

"This is an exciting and innovative book aiming to advance critical thinking from a range of disciplinary fields to facilitate the application of knowledge and practice for children with diverse needs. The authors explore both theoretical and practical questions to support research with children experiencing a continuum of need." (Professor Pat Dolan, National University of Ireland, Galway)

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