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parent advocacy
Parent advocacy refers to the actions parents take to protect their child’s well-being, rights, and access to education. This can include communicating with teachers, requesting accommodations, attending meetings, documenting incidents, or pursuing formal complaint processes. Advocacy often develops over time as families learn how education systems operate and how to navigate institutional processes.
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Solving problems at school: accommodation and IEP failures
When a school fails to accommodate a disabled child, it rarely announces the failure plainly. The accommodation does not arrive; the IEP goal sits unimplemented through term after term; the education assistant’s hours are quietly reduced without consultation; the psychoeducational assessment…
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Solving problems at school: exclusion and removal
Exclusion takes many forms in BC schools, and most of them have been given names designed to obscure what they are. A “gradual entry plan” is a partial schedule. A “room clear” is the isolation of a disabled child in an…
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Why does my kid melt down every day after school if they’re “fine”?
It’s common for a child to appear “fine” (or even unusually quiet, compliant, and capable) in the classroom—and then unravel after school with crying, anger, shutdown, or explosive behaviour at home. Clinicians and parent-support organisations often describe this as a release…
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Why do schools dismiss parent concerns about disability?
Parents often hear a similar response when they raise concerns about a child’s disability: “We support all students.” Schools may explain that everyone gets flexibility, everyone receives help with transitions, or that classroom strategies already support all learners. These responses are not…