Park the emotion, we need brave politicians in disability education

Usually the only people who have a problem with the ‘labels’ ASD or ADHD are people who are so prejudiced against disabled people that they can’t face the truth, writes Victory White

f there’s one thing which drives this mother of a disabled child mad it’s concern that kids with special needs should not be “labelled”.

Mostly you hear this concern from witless hippies. But at the end of last month, it was the turn of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to warn against the “unnecessary” labelling of children as a tool for accessing services.