Disability and Social Equality: The Centrality of Independent Living
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Abstract
I have been struggling for equality for over 30 Years.When I was born in Ottawa, in the 1950s, children with disabilities were either kept at home with their parents, or sent to live in a state or charitably run "home".Although I was born with my disability, I wasn't actually diagnosed until I was 3 years old and subjected to a gamut of medical tests at a charitable hospital in Montreal.In the 50's Medicare did not exist, so as a charitable hospital, I was able to receive diagnostic testing that my family could not otherwise afford.When my sister was born, four years after me, she was eventually diagnosed with the same disability as me: Spinal Muscular Atrophy which is a type of Muscular Dystrophy.I remember going to a "regular" school; a right which my Mom had to fight for with the local board of education.And then because of ongoing difficulties with me getting the support I needed to be really integrated in regular school, for example with accessible transportation or washroom assistance, I was sent to the "Crippled Children's School".At first, I was taxied to this school, but after a couple of years of going there, I was deemed ineligible for this "special program" because my disability "didn't improve with therapy".So there I was.The regular school wouldn't let me in, and neither would the "segregated" school.The only recourse was home teaching, which was paid for by the board of education.Mom was starting to panic about what was becoming an increasingly isolated and under-stimulated life.She regarded us both (me and my sister) as "smart" and "needing to use our brains".She worried about a future where neither of us would have the education to get into Highschool or University which would lead to a job.Although she wouldn't have been aware of any higher-level analysis at the time, her instincts were right on.If a child with a disability experiences inequity right from the start in terms of education then inequality follows them 1 Sandra Carpenter was born with a disability in Ottawa in the 1950s.She has been actively involved with the evolution of services and supports for people with primarily physical disabilities most of her life.She is currently the Executive Director of the Centre for Independent Living in Toronto.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.037 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".