Ethical reflections on the use of the category "children with disabilities" in quantitative research.
Christian Møller-Skau
PMID 42688248WHAT IT FOUND
A philosophical ethics paper arguing that labelling children as 'disabled' in statistics carries moral risks.
It offers no clinical evidence, no patient data, and no guidance for treatment decisions.
What this paper is
This is a perspective article on research ethics and moral philosophy. It contains no clinical methods, no participants, no intervention, no measured outcomes, and no results. It is a theoretical reflection on how the category 'children with disabilities' is used in quantitative statistics, drawing on utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics. There is nothing to summarise as a clinical finding.
Declared interests
The author declared that no financial support was received for the work or its publication.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence for or against any clinical intervention. It is a moral-philosophy reflection on how researchers label groups in statistics; it contains no patient data, no treatment comparison, and no outcome measure a therapist could act on.