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“Faced with the news that their child has a disability, many parents feel stunned and bewildered. What to do? How to cope? Where to find support? Drawing on her own experience of parenting a daughter with a severe intellectual disability, the author provides a much-needed resource book for birth families, foster families, caregivers and health and education professionals in New Zealand.

Looking the Other Way  will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about the challenges faced by those who are raising children with disabilities, severe health problems or special needs. Threaded through the text are the comments of many other similarly affected parents, grandparents and siblings..”

Covers coping skills and support, education and health systems, issues relating to families and foster families, and descriptions of real-life situations and their emotional effects.”