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Article: Responding to Sexual Harassment in Special Education Settings
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- Teaching Exceptional Children
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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CopyrightCopyright Council for Exceptional Children Mar/Apr 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Here are sobering facts: Sexual harassment permeates the culture of American schools. The majority of students report that they have experienced sexual harassment (American Association of University Women [AAUW], 1993, 2001; Dupper & Meyer-Adams, 2002; Shakeshaft et al, 1995; Stein, 1995, 1999; see box, "What Does the Literature Say?").
Few articles about sexual harassment and students with disabilities have appeared in the research literature (Stein, 1999), though our experience shows that sexual harassment occurs among all populations of students. Students with disabilities may lack the social skills and impulse control (Kavale & Forness, 1996) necessary to avoid participating in ...