PHOENIX — Karla Phillips-Krivickas spent years working in education policy at the Arizona Capitol. But it was her own experience raising two children with disabilities that showed her where the system was actually failing families.
The problem, she says, is a disconnect that trips up parents again and again: a child can receive a medical diagnosis of autism from a doctor, only to run into resistance from their school district. Legally, the two systems don’t automatically line up. Schools have to demonstrate that a disability creates an “educational impact” before they’re required to act, a distinction most parents never learn until they’re already in a meeting fighting for services.
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