In this chapter, we are concerned with the local social process through which a group of boys in a special needs practice are identified and described as deviating from the local norms of school conduct (cf. Hester & Francis, 2000). More specifically we will demonstrate how a more permanent (and deviant) identity is talked into being during a remedial activity organized in the special educational needs unit. In the context of such an activity, individual boys’ are attributed a set of emotional, social and behavioural deficiencies, which are made a daily topic of inquiry, in order to remedy the problem behaviours in question.