Sticks and Stones can Break Your Bones But Words can Break Your Heart: Preventing Disability Harassment in Schools

Jeremy was in tears and Brenda’s temperature had reached the boiling point. Jeremy was in 7th Grade and used a wheelchair. Everything at school had been fine until the new the new kid transferred in. The new kid had started calling Jeremy the “crip”. Jeremy could handle some kidding about his using a wheelchair, but there [...]