Publications

Books and monographs

Growing up with parents who have learning difficulties, Routledge, London, 1998.

Advocacy for parents with learning difficulties, Pavilion Publishers, Brighton, July, 1998.

Exceptional childhoods, unexceptional children, family and parenting/policy and practice series, Family Policy Studies Centre, London,1997.

Parenting under pressure: mothers and fathers with learning difficulties, Open University Press, Buckingham, 1994.

Chapters in edited books

'The experience of parenting: a research approach' (1993) in Craft, A. (ed.) Parents with learning disabilities, BILD seminar series no. 3. Kidderminster: British Institute of Learning Disabilities, pp. 43-55.

'For better, for worse: professionals, practice and parents with learning difficulties' (1995) in Philpot, T. and Ward, L. (eds.) Values and visions: changing ideas in services for people with learning difficulties. London: Butterworth-Heinemann, pp. 290-303.

'Sounds of still voices: issues in the use of narrative methods with people who have learning difficulties' (1996) in Barton, L. (ed.) Disability and society: emerging issues and insights. London: Longman.

'Making connections: a narrative study of adult children of parents with learning difficulties' (1997) in Barnes, C. and Mercer, G. (eds.) Doing disability research. Leeds: The Disability Press, pp. 121-141.

'Risk, resilience and competence: parents with learning difficulties and their children' (1998) in Jenkins, R. (ed.) Questions of competence: culture, classification and intellectual disabilities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.76-101.

Articles in academic journals

'Practice in sexuality', Mental Handicap (Special Issue), June, 1992, pp. 64-69. Reprinted in Mental Handicap Bulletin, 86, September, 1992.

'Accentuate the positive: a personal profile of a parent with learning difficulties', Disability, Handicap and Society, 8(4), 1993, pp. 377-392.

'Parenting with learning difficulties: lessons for practitioners', British Journal of Social Work, 23, 1993, pp. 459-480.

'Learning the hard way: practice issues in supporting parents with learning difficulties', Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 4(2), 1993, pp. 148-162.

'Family undoing', British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 21(4), 1993, pp. 137-141.

'The use of depth interviewing with vulnerable subjects: lessons from a research study of parents with learning difficulties', Social Science and Medicine, 39(3), 1994, pp. 415-424.

'Parental adequacy, parenting failure and parents with learning difficulties', Health and Social Care in the Community, 2, 1994, pp. 161-172.

'Working with parents with mental retardation: lessons from research', Journal of Physical and Developmental Disabilities, 6(1), 1994, pp. 23-41.

'Training and support for parents with learning difficulties: a review of literature', Journal of Practical Approaches to Developmental Handicap, 18(2), 1994, pp. 10-14.

'Unto us a child is born: the trials and rewards of parenthood for people with learning difficulties', Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 20(1), 1995, pp. 25-39.

'Sounds of silence: narrative research with inarticulate subjects', Disability and Society, 11(1), 1996, pp. 55-69.

'Parental competence and parents with learning difficulties', Child and Family Social Work, 1(2), 1996, pp. 81-86.

'Parenting in context: policy, practice and the Pollocks', Child and Family Social Work, 1(2), 1996, pp. 93-96.

'Supported parenting for people with learning difficulties: lessons from Wisconsin', Representing Children, 9(2), 1996, pp. 99-107.

'System abuse and the power of advocacy', Impact, 11(1), Spring (Special Issue), 1998, pp. 22-23.

'The adult children of parents with learning difficulties', Impact, 11(1), Spring (Special Issue), 1998, pp. 18-19.

'Think of the children: growing up with parents who have learning difficulties', Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2(3), 1998, pp. 138-143.

'Doing research with lonely people', British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 26(4), 1998, pp. 132-134.

‘Reflections on an ordinary life: Philip Anderson’, Community, Work and Family, 1(3), 1998, pp. 325-328.

'Adult children of parents with learning difficulties: stereotypical outcomes and the reporting of narrative research', Narrative Inquiry, 9(1), 1999, pp. 123-137.

‘Parents Together: action research and advocacy support for parents with learning difficulties’, Health and Social Care in the Community, 7(6), 1999, 464-474.

‘Against the odds: growing up with parents who have learning difficulties’, Mental Retardation, 38(1), February, 2000, pp. 1-14.

‘Parents with learning difficulties, child protection and the courts’, Representing Children, 13(3), 2000, pp. 175-188.

'Men in the lives of mothers with intellectual disabilities', Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 15(3), 2002, pp. 187-199.

'Self-advocacy and supported learning for mothers with learning difficulties', Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7(2), 2003, pp. 165-193.

'In the frame: photovoice and mothers with learning difficulties', Disability and Society, 18(4), 2003, pp. 431-442.

'Parents with learning difficulties and the stolen generation', Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7(3), September, 2003, pp. 203-209.

'A family at risk: multiple perspectives on parenting and child protection', British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 32(1), 2004, pp. 9-15.

Articles in professional journals

'Power to parents', Nursing Times, 89(35), 1 September 1993, pp. 61-63.

'An ordinary family life', Community Care, 23 April 1992, pp. 15-17.

'Why am I here?', Community Care, 3 September 1992, pp. 28-29.

'How Cathy Copes', Community Living, April 1993, pp. 18-19.

'Help or hindrance: practitioners working with parents with learning difficulties', Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood International, 4 October 1993, pp. 6-7.

'Parenting training for people with learning difficulties', Educare, 48, March, pp. 25-29.

'Birth right', Community Care, 18-24 August 1994, pp. 24-25.

'A proper family: the ultimate denial', Community Living, 8(1), July, 1994, pp. 12-13.

'Parents Together: support for parents with learning difficulties', Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood International, 13, January 1996, p. 13.

'Not so ordinary childhoods', Community Living, 10(4), April 1997, pp. 13-14.

'Growing up with parents who have learning difficulties', Childright, 136, May 1997, pp. 8-9.

'Side by side', Community Care, 30 October – 5 November 1997, p. 27.

'Parents Together: advocacy for parents with learning difficulties', Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood International, 23, July 1998, pp. 8-9.

'Being a parent', Plain Facts, 11, June 1998, pp. 1-6 (and separate audio cassette of same issue).

'Families first', The Parenting Forum, 2, Autumn 1998, p. 12.

'Doing it for themselves: a support group for mothers with learning difficulties', Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood International, 27, July, p. 9.

'The ups and downs of being a parent with learning difficulties', Frontline, 41, January 2000, pp. 22-23.

'Parents with learning disabilities need support', Nursing Times, 8 June 2000, p.41. Reprinted in Therapy Weekly, 27(15), 19 October 2000, p. 9.

'Barriers to justice facing parents with learning difficulties', Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood International, 36, October 2001, pp. 6-7.