CHRISSIE ROGERS is a Sociologist and Lecturer in Education Studies at Keele University, UK. She completed her doctorate at the University of Essex in 2004, after which she spent a year as an ESRC postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Family Research, Cambridge University.

'...I would highly recommend the book as offering a well-written, compelling and muich needed insight into the experience of parenting learning impaired children' - Val Gillies, Sociology 'This is a refreshing book worthy of being read widely by teachers and other professionals working with children, administrators and policy-makers. It has a place in continuing professional development courses in local authorities and in universities.' - Brahm Norwich, European Journal of Special Needs Education '[This] is an exceptional sociological work...the book can be recommended as an obligatory text for professionals working with impaired persons and their families as well a for social sciences students.' - Agnieszka Golczynska-Grondas, Qualitative Sociology Review 'This is a thought-provoking book which I recommend to the academic community, health and education practitioners and policy makers and last, but not least, to parents.' - Dawn Male, The Sociological Review

• List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Mothering and 'Disability': The Social, Cultural and Political Spheres Mothering: Identification and Diagnosis of Impairment Statementing and Partnership: Working Together? Experiencing a 'Special' Education Living with Impairment Discovering Difference, Experiencing Difficulty Bibliography Index