When Inclusion Excludes: DisCrit Insights into the Racialized and Medicalized Framing of Neurodiversity

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 7:45 am - Gold 2
  In Roundtable Session: Centering Neurodivergent Voices and Perspectives in Education

Abstract

As schools become increasingly more diverse, there are more neurodiverse students who are receiving special education services within general education classrooms. The objectives of the research were to understand (1) how practicing educators conceptualize neurodiversity, (2) how they support neurodiverse learners within the classroom, and (3) challenges they face when including neurodiverse learners. Educators share their understandings of what neurodiversity is, which was rooted in pathologized discourse that emphasized deficits.

Authors

• Chelsea Tracy-Bronson, Stockton University

• Sara Scribner, Plymouth State University