Increasing Awareness about Learning Disabilities and Bullying
The C.B.A Foundation along with I Have Capabilities NOT Disabilities have joined together to increase awareness about bullying among students with learning disabilities.
Bullying of children with disabilities is significant but there is very little research to document it.
Only 10 U.S. studies have been conducted on the connection between bullying and developmental disabilities but all of these studies found that children with disabilities were two to three times more likely to be bullied than their non-disabled peers. One study shows that 60 percent of students with disabilities report being bullied regularly compared with 25 percent of all students.