Educators as Mirrors: Discourse Appropriation by Classmates of Students With Behavior Issues

• In Event: 33.079 - Roundtable Session 12
  In Roundtable Session: 33.079-21 - Constructing Disability Discourse and Identity

Abstract

The language used in inclusive classrooms to address students with disabilities that display behaviors influence how all students perceive their classmates and their actions. From a Foucauldian and disability studies perspective this paper critically examines the implications of the availability of deficit and controlling discourses in a classroom, particularly how it influences the perceptions and behaviors of classmates in relation to the students with behavior issues. Using intersectional lenses, this paper critically examines the implications of the availability of these discourses in the behaviors of classmates of students with behavior issues.

Author

• Fernanda Orsati, Hussman Institute for Autism