Gwynnyth Llewellyn & Rannveig Traustadottir 
Parents with Intellectual Disabilities [PDF ebook] 
Past, Present and Futures

List of Contributors.
Foreword (Steven J.Taylor).
Acknowledgments.
Introduction (Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Rannveig Traustadóttir,
David Mc Connell, and Hanna Björg
Sigurjónsdóttir).
PART I FAMILY AND COMMUNITY LIFE
1. Becoming a Mother – Becoming a Father (Rachel Mayes
and Hanna Bjorg Sigurjónsdóttir).
2. Looking Back on Their Own Upbringing (Gwynnyth Llewellyn
and David Mc Connell).
3. Family Within a Family (Hanna Björg
Sigurjónsdóttir and Rannveig Traustadóttir).
4. Children and Their Life Experiences (Jytte
Faureholm).
5. Understanding Community in the Lives of Parents with
Intellectual Disabilities (Gwynnyth Llewellyn and Marie
Gustavsson).
6. Citizenship and Community Participation (Brigit
Mirfin-Veitch).
7. Parenting and Resistance: Strategies in Dealing with Services
and Professionals (Rannveig Traustadóttir and Hanna
Björg Sigurjónsdóttir).
PART II HUMAN SERVICES ENABLING AND DISABLING PARENTS WITH
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES
8. Parenting Education Programs (Maurice Feldman).
9. Supported Decision Making for Women with Intellectual
Disabilities (Sue Mc Gaw and Sue Candy).
10. Turning Policy Into Practice (Beth Tarleton).
11. Caught in the Child Protection Net (David Mc Connell and
Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir).
12. Turning Rights into Realities in Québec, Canada
(Marjorie Aunos, Laura Pacheco, and Katherine Moxness).
13. Supporting Mothers’ Community Participation (David
Mc Connell and Gwynnyth Llewellyn).
14. Advocacy for Change: ‘The Final Tool in the
Toolbox?’ (Linda Ward and Beth Tarleton).
Conclusion: Taking Stock and Looking to the Future (David
Mc Connell, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Rannveig Traustadóttir and
Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir).
Index.

Gwynnyth Llewellyn is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, and Director of the Australian Family and Disability Studies Research Collaboration. Professor Llewellyn’s work led to the world’s first national strategy to support parents with learning difficulties and promote a healthy start to life for their young children.
Rannveig Traustadóttir is Professor and Director of the Centre for Disability Studies in the School of Social Sciences, University of Iceland. She has been one of the leaders in developing Disability Studies as a scholarly field in the Nordic countries and is the former president of The Nordic Network on Disability Research.
David Mc Connell is Professor in the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta. Professor Mc Connell has been conducting research in the field of parents and parenting with intellectual disabilities in Australia for over 15 years. He is now expanding his research program in Canada.
Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iceland. She has conducted collaborative research with parents with intellectual disabilities for 15 years. Together with Rannveig Traustadttir she has published Contested Families: Parents with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Children (1998) and Invisible Families: Mothers with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Children (2001).