Book cover entitled “Life with movement disabilities — Perspectives of children and young people” by Emil Falster, Isabella Vagtholm and Hanne Warming.

Disability Studies

Life with a Movement Disability from a Child and Adolescent Perspective

What is the reality for children with varying functional abilities in today's Denmark?

This question was addressed by Emil Falster in his PhD project. Based on developments in the field of disability over the past ten years, the project highlights some of the barriers that children with mobility disabilities and their parents encounter on their way, primarily through the public system, but also outside the public space.

The research project is anchored in the research centre Limo: Denmark's national research centre for research on mobility disabilities from a child and adolescent perspective, which is co-funded by the Bevica Foundation and Roskilde University.

As one of the results of the research project, Falster, together with Hanne Warming and Isabella Vagtholm, wrote the book “Life with a Movement Disability from a Child and Adolescent Perspective”. The book gives a unique insight into how children and young people with a mobility disability experience their everyday lives — with the opportunities and barriers that it entails to have a norm-breaking body.In a series of thematic chapters, we zoom in on various challenges and dilemmas that children and young people face in everyday life, and it is discussed how to avoid misguided considerations, unwanted pity, as a professional or parent. undue adult management and contribution to experiences of discrimination and stigma.

In this context, six short animation films have been developed that illustrate and elaborate on the different themes of the book. Watch all movies below.