The Lancet. Child & adolescent healthHumansChildPediatricsChildren with DisabilitiesDisability Discrimination
Impaired expectations: the challenge of ableism in paediatrics.
Paige Terrien Church, Rudaina Banihani, Amy Rule, David Frumberg, John Maypole, Ashley Volion, Michael Msall, Peter Rosenbaum
Published: 202610.1016/S2352-4642(25)00222-6
Abstract
In the field of paediatrics, the concept of normal (ie, typical)-in contrast to different, special, deviant, delayed, or atypical-has imposed a problematic framework within which people view a child with an impairment. This binary perspective oversim…
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