How Labels Inform & Limit Teachers & Students

The Language of Labels by Darcy Markham (An article published in Teaching Exception Children Plus November 2005)

The author describes how the language of labels and her own cultural biases affect how she approaches teaching her students with disabilities. The author examines how the mythopoetic narratives of our past force us to examine the underlying assumptions of our culture that are expressed within our language and how understanding our own linguistic patterns can open our minds up to alternative viewpoints that we may not have otherwise understood.

Labeling Students with Disabilities: Should We Do It? by Sarah Maccarelli (Originally published at Associated Content May 2, 2006)

Labeling a Student by Linda Weaver Clarke (Originally published in the American Chronicle August 14, 2006)