Learning Disabilities as a Non-negative Ontology: Mental Hygiene, Medicalization and Education
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The field of learning disabilities (LD) is divided between mainstream and contextualist perspectives of LD. Both perspectives view LD as a negative ontology (Baker, 2002). A negative ontology refers to disabilities as inherently problematic; individuals labelled as disabled will inevitably have poorer outcomes (Campbell, 2000). This paper argues that a unified view of LD begins with viewing LD as a non-negative ontology. To understand LD as a non-negative ontology requires first a critical consciousness of the historical formations of LD as a negative ontology. In particular, this paper provides an overview of various historical arguments on how medicalization and the mental hygiene movement framed LD as a negative ontology.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it