The present study aims to discuss the possibility of people with disabilities participating in discourse, action, and interlocution . Additionally, the study analyzes Jurgen Habermas’s Discourse Ethics and its relation to how people with disabilities may be led to participate in discourse, action, and interlocution. This idea is corroborated by the fact that advocates and self-advocates have suggested that Habermas’s theory and his Discourse Ethics should support the search /struggle for equal opportunities. Despite the fact that Habermas’s theory seems to refer only to people who are capable of talking for themselves “naturally” (i.e., people who do not need environmental modifications to participate in discourse, action, and interlocution), Habermas’s Discourse Ethics raises an urgent issue to be faced by human society: respect for human plurality.
Special Education; People with disability; Ethics; Communication; Discourse