testimonial injustice
Testimonial injustice occurs when someone’s credibility is unfairly reduced because of prejudice or institutional bias. In school advocacy, it helps explain why parent knowledge, disabled children’s accounts, and lived experience are often treated as less reliable than professional or administrative narratives.
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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…