Intersections of trauma and disability: Reacting, Responding and (Re)Traumatising
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Almost 22% of school students in Australia have a disability. By the time a young person reaches 16 years of age, up to 75% will have experienced at least one traumatic event in their lives. If we could somehow connect these two statistics together, this would likely represent a substantial number of students who have/are experiencing both trauma and disability. In 2021, there were 4,030,717 students enrolled in Australian schools. At a rough guesstimate using the previous percentages, this would suggest about 886,758 of those students have disability. Furthermore, that approximately 3,023,037 school students have experienced one or more traumatising events. We do not yet have any distinct statistics about the numbers of students who have both disability and who have also experienced trauma. However, the isolated statistics that we do have indicate a concerning picture about this relatively unknown heterogenous population of school students. What is currently known is that trauma is more common for people with disability than those without disability, and furthermore that many people with disability have also experienced trauma.
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2
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Ronksley-Pavia, M, Intersections of trauma and disability: Reacting, Responding and (Re)Traumatising, ASSIST Journal, 2022, 2 (2), pp. 5-14