Aidan Campagnolio

Aidan Campagnolio

PhD Student in School Psychology/Graduate Research Assistant

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Lessons Learned

• Children with disabilities are often met with disbelief when they report instances of maltreatment to trusted adults.
• Children with disabilities who have additional marginalized identities experience disproportionately unjust consequences compared to children with disabilities. One must incorporate an intersectional framework when working with children with disabilities, as Black children with disabilities will have a different lived experience of disability than White children with disabilities, for example. An additive framework of marginalization will fail to capture the nuance of disability and other identities
• Professionals do not receive adequate training in diagnosing and treating maltreatment of children with disabilities. This truth is best explained by diagnostic overshadowing: when clinicians falsely attribute mental health symptomology to a preexisting disability (e.g., autism, intellectual disability, etc.). In other words, children with disabilities may experience delays to receiving care because their mental health symptoms are incorrectly conceptualized as disability-related behaviors.

Resources Developed

• Campagnolio, A.P., Lynch, A., Weiss, K.E., Suarez, J., & Aguilar Walls, M. (2025). The state of early childhood education in Pennsylvania: Exclusionary discipline and preschool-to-prison pipeline. Paper (roundtable) presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
• Reinhardt, J., & Campagnolio, A. P. (2024). Understanding complexity: The convergence of disability and trauma in clinical practice. Positive Approaches Journal, 13(1), 24–32. https://www.myodp.org/mod/book/view.php?id=53788&chapterid=1070
• Hallock, T. M., Kelly, P. J. A., Campagnolio, A., Dysart, M., F√ºl√∂p, R., Kaufman, I., McGiffert, N., & Gould-Taylor, S. (2025). The healthcare experiences of LGBTQ people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the United States: A scoping review. Social Science & Medicine, 383, 118431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118431

Suggested Resources

• Disability-Affirmative Therapy: A Case Formulation Template for Clients with Disabilities (Academy of Rehabilitation Psychology Series)
• Sins Invalid: 10 Principles of Disability Justice https://sinsinvalid.org/10-principles-of-disability-justice/
• National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Mental Health Resources for Trauma: https://www.nasponline.org/resources-and-publications/resources-and-pod…

Collaborative Areas of Interest

• Research: Mental health of children with disabilities
• Quantitative research methods
• Cross professional collaboration