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Fonseca, S. & Leal, Sandra (2021). Pilot intervention program in schools to prevent disablist bullying. World Anti-Bullying Forum.

S. C. Fonseca and L. Sandra,  "Pilot intervention program in schools to prevent disablist bullying", in World Anti-Bullying Forum, Estocolmo, 2021

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	author = "Fonseca, S. and Leal, Sandra",
	title = "Pilot intervention program in schools to prevent disablist bullying",
	year = "2021",
	howpublished = "Ambos (impresso e digital)"
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Pilot intervention program in schools to prevent disablist bullying
T2  - World Anti-Bullying Forum
AU  - Fonseca, S.
AU  - Leal, Sandra
PY  - 2021
CY  - Estocolmo
AB  - Introduction:
Across the world, there are several approaches to prevent and deal with bullying towards people with special education needs or disabilities (SEND), known as disablist bullying.
Literature indicates that children with SEND are more likely to be a victim of bullying      and the prevalence of bullying involvement among students with disabilities is higher than the average for students without disabilities   . These conclusions were confirmed recently  . Although little is known about the prevalence of disablist bullying and only a few good practices are available.

Method:
After the end of the DisAbuse project  , an adaptation to the school context was made and a pilot study has been implemented.
All the students with and without SEND, teachers and parents of the 5th grade classes of a Portuguese school participated.
Data was collected before the beginning and will be collected after the intervention.

Results:
Following a whole-education approach, the training of teachers and other school staff was made in November 2019 and February 2020 and the support has been available; the partnerships was assured; the reporting mechanisms for students involved in bullying was developed; the school community was involved; data has been collected to monitor the process; a caring school climate has been promoted in parallel with safe classroom environment; and students’ participation it’s essential. Nonetheless, the strong leadership has only been achieved at the school level.

Conclusion:
The ongoing intervention program indicates that students with and without SEND needs to learn what is bullying and ways to deal with it in school and online. Also, teachers and other professionals and parents need to be aware of the disablist bullying reality.
To prevent disablist bullying, there are not enough good practices and tools available to inform interventions. Although the whole-education approach seems to be a response to school- and cyber-bullying.

ER  -