Selected References from the International Research Literature on Parents with an intellectual disability, Child Protection and the Courts

Bray, A. (1999). Parents who have intellectual disabilities: Challenges to systems of child protection, Dunedin, New Zealand: Donald Beasley Institute.
Czukar, G. (1983). Legal aspects of parenthood for mentally retarded persons. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Handicap, 2, 57-69.
Gilhool, T., & Gran, J. (1985). Legal rights of disabled parents. In S. Thurman (Ed.), Children of Handicapped Parents: Research and clinical perspectives. New York: Academic Press.
Hayman, R. (1990). Presumptions of justice: law, politics and the mentally retarded parent. Harvard Law Review, 103, 1201-1271.
Levesque, R. (1996). Maintaining children's relations with mentally disabled parents: Recognizing difference and the difference it makes. Children's Legal Rights Journal, 16(2), 14-22.
McConnell, D., & Llewellyn, G. (1998). Parental disability and the threat of child removal. Family Matters, 51(4), 33-36.
McConnell, D., Llewellyn, G. & Ferronato, L., (2000) Parents with a disability and the NSW Children's Court Sydney: The Law Foundation of NSW and the University of Sydney
McConnell, D., & Llewellyn, G., (2000) Disability and discrimination in statutory child protection proceedings. Disability and Society, 15(6), 883-895.
Taylor, C., Norman, D., Murphy, J., Jellinek, M., Quinn, D., Poitrast, F., & Goshko, M. (1991). Diagnosed intellectual and emotional impairment among parents who seriously mistreat their children: Prevalence, type, and outcome in a court sample. Child Abuse and Neglect, 15, 389-401.
Watkins, C. (1995). Beyond status: The Americans with Disabilities Act and the parental rights of people labeled developmentally disabled or mentally retarded. California Law Review, 83, 1415-1475.