Education system discrimination against children with mental disorders.
OBJECTIVE
To describe the conceptual confusion, inconsistency and discrimination within some state and territory education systems towards children with mental disorders.


CONCLUSIONS
Reforms are required to achieve a consistent Australia wide framework for the classification of childhood mental disorders as disabilities. The mental health diagnostic assessment to qualify for disability status needs to be simplified when participation in complex evaluation procedures is not possible.
Bor
William
W
Mater Centre for Service Research in Mental Health, Mater Child and Youth Mental Health Service, South Brisbane, Qld, Australia. william.bor@mater.org.au
Dakin
Jean
J
D001315:Australia; D002648:Child; D019988:Children with Disabilities / Q000145:classification / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004519:Education, Special / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification*; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011287:Prejudice