Supporting People with Disabilities

Grade Level: 2-5

Time: 50 Minutes

Essential Question

How can students be brave and act as an ally when peers, classmates and friends are being teased, bullied, excluded or targeted based on their disability?

About This Lesson

Every day in schools and classrooms, children with disabilities are excluded, teased, bullied and are targets of prejudice. Children with disabilities are two to three times more likely to be bullied than their peers who do not have a disability. When exclusion, teasing or bullying happens, other children may want to help, but they are not sure how or may be afraid to do so. This lesson provides an opportunity for students to learn about people with disabilities, the exclusion and prejudice they face and how to act as an ally when they see harmful language and behavior.