Gwynnyth Llewellyn is Professor and Dean of the Faculty ofHealth Sciences, University of Sydney, and Director of theAustralian Family and Disability Studies Research Collaboration.Professor Llewellyn's work led to the world's first nationalstrategy to support parents with learning difficulties and promotea healthy start to life for their young children. Rannveig Traustadottir is Professor and Director ofthe Centre for Disability Studies in the School of Social Sciences,University of Iceland. She has been one of the leaders indeveloping Disability Studies as a scholarly field in the Nordiccountries and is the former president of The Nordic Network onDisability Research. David McConnell is Professor in the Faculty ofRehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta. Professor McConnellhas been conducting research in the field of parents and parentingwith intellectual disabilities in Australia for over 15 years. Heis now expanding his research program in Canada. Hanna Bjorg Sigurjonsdottir is anAssistant Professor at the University of Iceland. She has conductedcollaborative research with parents with intellectual disabilitiesfor 15 years. Together with Rannveig Traustadttir she has publishedContested Families: Parents with Intellectual Disabilities andTheir Children (1998) and Invisible Families: Mothers withIntellectual Disabilities and Their Children (2001).