Not your average childhood: lived experience of children with physical disabilities raised in Bloorview Hospital, Home and School from 1960 to 1989
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Sixteen adults with physical disabilities participated in this emancipatory research study to document their recollection of institutionalization in Toronto's Bloorview Hospital, Home and School between 1960 and 1989. This study suggests that: there were two distinct cohorts of residents, with the latter group having a relatively more positive experience; residents operationalized a hierarchy among themselves; residents experienced emotional, physical and sexual abuse while in residence; peer relationships were valued, both within and outside the institution; residents found creative ways to be rebellious; reprisals took the form of physical abuse related to disability; most residents had difficulty expressing their sexuality; family relationships were highly valued by residents; therapeutic interventions were not valued; recreational programs were highly valued by residents and contributed to self‐esteem; and educational experiences were highly valued, but deemed inadequate. Respondents, in retrospect, support an ongoing role for institutions as a resource for technology and for fostering independence. Keywords: institutionalizationphysical disabilitylived experienceabuseemancipatory research Notes 1. See website http://www.bloorviewmacmillan.on.ca/aboutus/history.htm 2. Bloorview‐MacMillan archival material (no number). 3. See website www.bloorviewmacmillan.on.ca/aboutus/capitproj.htm. 4. Bloorview‐MacMillan archival material (no number). 5. Bloorview‐MacMillan archives, cf. document 24/9 1991. 6. Bloorview‐MacMillan archival material (no number). 7. Statistics Canada http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/famil01.htm as modified 21 January 2005 (accessed 12 August 2009).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".