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Fifty Years of Push and Pull: Challenging Assumptions about Inclusion Within Traditional Special Education Discourse

Thu, April 9, 9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT), JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 2nd Floor, Platinum I

Session Type: Symposium

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This symposium brings together five papers that interrogate enduring assumptions in special education that justify the segregation of students with disabilities. Through critical discourse analysis, systematic literature review, AI-assisted thematic analysis, and theoretical reframing, presenters examine how ableism, rhetoric, and ideology have sustained exclusionary practices. Topics include the influence of leading scholars in sustaining exclusion, the lack of empirical support for segregation, the marginalization of disability in federal policy, and the historical roots of exclusionary discourses. Together, these papers challenge claims of neutrality in research and policy and reassert inclusive education as a civil and human right. The session advances a shift toward equity-driven, evidence-based practices that affirm the right of all students to learn in inclusive settings.

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