‘It’s not About Success, it’s About Access’: Narratives of Post-Secondary Students Labelled with Invisible Intellectual Disabilities Seeking Accommodations
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This Major Research Paper centres the narratives of and the injustices experienced by postsecondary students labelled with invisible intellectual disabilities (IID). Specifically, I center the narratives of these students when accessing accommodation services at various educational institutions in Ontario. Most of the scholarly literature confirms there is a lack of insider experience used to inform policy and research. The aim of this study was to listen and amplify the insider voices. Three students labelled with IID’s who were/had been registered with accommodations support participated in this narrative inquiry. Each person was individually interviewed, and the interviews were recorded, transcribed and reviewed by participants. Both narrative and thematic analyses were used to focus on the stories and the key findings. Importantly, these findings speak to the many ways in which students labelled with IID’s have suffered in silence, enduring injustice during their post-secondary years by both faculty members and so-called accommodation centres.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
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".