Disability Designation Systems
Disability designation systems are administrative categories used to identify, fund, or report student needs. They can help unlock support, but they can also flatten complexity, create perverse incentives, delay response, and obscure children whose needs do not fit neatly into a code.
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Iatrogenic harm and the parent advocate: how school systems produce disability in the families they fail
The body keeps the account even when the institution refuses to. What the school system produced in the parent who spent years trying to hold it accountable is not caregiver burden — a word that belongs to the person carrying it — but iatrogenic harm: specific, dated, attributable, and fully known to the institutions that…