The purpose of this study was to investigate human rights violations among students with disabilities by 3 main categories: bullying, direct discrimination and indirect discrimination. 10 sub-categories include violence, sexual abuse, verbal abuse, ha...
The purpose of this study was to investigate human rights violations among students with disabilities by 3 main categories: bullying, direct discrimination and indirect discrimination. 10 sub-categories include violence, sexual abuse, verbal abuse, harassment, cyber-bullying, invasion of privacy, educational neglect, discrimination of educational opportunities, unsupported reasonable accommodations and inconsiderateness, and 36 small-categories. Data were collected from 1,606 school members comprising of special education teachers, general education teachers, assistants and parents of the students with disabilities from inclusive classrooms. Overall, results showed that 59.2% of the participants had experienced human rights violations of students with disabilities. The experience of human rights violations, expressed as a percentage, was the highest for special education teachers and the lowest was for general teachers. Of the main categories of human rights violations, school bullying showed a higher proportion(42.3%) than direct or indirect discrimination. Of the 10 sub-categories the most frequently experienced human rights violation in all school members was the denial of accommodation. No support for communication and commute to school had the highest proportion of the 36 small-categories. Based on these findings, political implications were suggested for preventing school violence and eliminating direct and indirect discrimination.