duty to inquire
The duty to inquire means institutions may have to investigate possible accommodation needs when they know, or ought reasonably to know, that disability-related barriers may be present. It is important where schools wait for perfect documentation while a child’s access deteriorates.
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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…