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Is it lack of support or is it child abuse?
This page exists because the line between lack of support and child abuse is one that institutions have every incentive to keep blurred, and families have every right to examine clearly.
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When does lack of support become child abuse?
There is a moment — and every parent of a disabled child in a BC school has felt it, even if they could not yet articulate it — when the institutional explanation for your child’s suffering stops making sense. The school…
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Solving problems at school: crisis, restraint, and safety
This page addresses physical restraint, isolation, crisis intervention, and unsafe school conditions in BC schools, and specifically their impact on disabled and neurodivergent children, who are disproportionately subjected to these practices. A child in crisis is a child whose nervous system…