Abstract
The occurrence and impact of disability harassment of students in special education apparently have a low priority for official policy makers and education administrators. Literature on policies of generic school bullying, one state's prohibition of pupil harassment, and a federal memorandum of school-based disability harassment are reviewed. The purpose of this preliminary study is to investigate observed occurrences of harassment of students with disabilities based on 15 specific types of harassment conduct and explore potential policy implications of such conduct. Ninety special education teachers from a large public school district reported on their direct observations of harassment of their students. The most frequently reported types that occur “many times” in rank order include epithets, slurs, mimicking, mockery, and staring. Overall, 96.7% of the participants report that they observed more than one incident of these types of school-related disability harassment conduct. Implications, study limitations, and recommendations for research and policy are discussed.
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