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Conductive education: thirty years on (2019)
Journal Article
Emerson, A., & Holroyd, F. (2020). Conductive education: thirty years on. Disability and Society, 35(8), 1349-1354. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2019.1685791

In 1989 Mike Oliver’s Current Issue about Conductive Education (CE) enabled disability activists and scholars to consider educational ‘tools’ and cures as potentially oppressive, and he expressed his view that CE was based on a set of assumptions abo... Read More about Conductive education: thirty years on.

‘Room of Gloom’: Reconceptualising Mothers of Children with Disabilities as Experiencing Trauma (2019)
Journal Article
Emerson, A. (2020). ‘Room of Gloom’: Reconceptualising Mothers of Children with Disabilities as Experiencing Trauma. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 25(2), 124-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2019.1658946

The experience of having a child with disabilities can be traumatic due to the nature of the child’s condition, fears for life, uncertainty about future quality of life and how news of the condition is imparted. Mothers of children with disabilities... Read More about ‘Room of Gloom’: Reconceptualising Mothers of Children with Disabilities as Experiencing Trauma.