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Articles, Publications and Resources
regarding Bullying of Children with Disabilities

(Also see General Education page: Bullying in School)

  • Bullying Among Children and Youth with Disabilities and Special Needs (Education.com)
    There is a small but growing amount of research literature on bullying among children with disabilities and special needs. This research indicates that these children may be at particular risk of being bullied by their peers.

  • Bullying of Kids with Disabilities: How One Young Man Took Back Control (Special Ed Justice – 3/31/11)
    A very inspirational story about a student with Asperger’s Disorder who managed to turn the very negative experience of being bullied into a positive result.

  • Bullying of Kids with Disabilities: How Can We Make it Stop? (Special Ed Justice – 4/22/09)
    Yet another sad story of a child who committed suicide because he was being bullied at school.  Poor Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover of Massachusetts killed himself, apparently to put an end to the constant bullying to which he was subjected by his peers at school. 

  • 'Independence' Is The Scariest Word: My Life With Learning Disabilities (Huffington Post 6/6/12)
    Bullying. It's getting a lot of attention. We hear almost daily of another story where someone who is considered "different" is laughed at, teased, pushed around — or worse. And where teasing and bullying can lead to sad consequences. Young adults with learning disabilities understand how hard it is to be "different." I am no stranger to these difficulties because I have learning disabilities, or as I like to call them, learning differences.

  • Students With Disabilities Often On Both Ends Of Bullying (Disability Scoop – 6/29/12)
    Special education students are more likely than their typically developing peers to be bullied. But new evidence indicates they’re also often the ones doing the harassing.  A new study looking at over 800 students ages 9 to 16 from nine different schools finds that bullying experiences vary dramatically between special education and general education students.

Resources:

  • Special Needs Anti-Bullying Toolkit (Bully Free World)
    This toolkit is a set of resources for people to confront bullying of children with special needs from all angles – from talking to your children to knowing your rights to teaching tolerance in schools.