Comments on: March Is Disabilities Month

By: Oral Exam Police

Oral Exam Police — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:21:52 +0000

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By: hammered silver coin

hammered silver coin — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:54:53 +0000

It sounds like you’re creating problems yourself by trying to solve this issue instead of looking at why their is a problem in the first place.

By: colleen

colleen — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:24:43 +0000

I have a child with a major disability…and sometimes if a child is staring, and looks curious, I will just say to them that they can talk to her…she can not really talk back, but she loves when you say hi to her. If they ask questions I answer them. Typically the kids are pretty good until they get older. If someone is being mean, just saying that is not nice, how would you like to be treated suffices. Or if the whole line of kids in school are staring, just a reminder that it is not nice to stare does it. Educating children about disabilities seems to be the best thing.

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By: LaDonna

LaDonna — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:08:26 +0000

I guess we don’t actively do or say anything. We’ve said things like, “God made everyone different.” Or, “We don’t stare and point, I’ll explain when we get in the car.” When we get to the car we talk about how a car accident or a burn accident or something of the sort hurts people permanently and they act or look different than we do. We aren’t to treat them differently or stare or point. We help them if they need help just like we would anyone else.

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By: Amber

Amber — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:54:00 +0000

“It’s important that we view them without the disability.” I think generally speaking this is the best thing that you can do. You want to view them as you would anyone else just like you would do with someone race or nationality. Not all disabilities are visible.
My daughter has autism and physically you would not know that there is anything anything different about her from the next child, but in social and academic situations there is differences.
Unless a situation deems necessary we do not go out of our way to let children know that she may be different. If there is a situation that calls for an explanation for age appropriate children we ask if they have heard of autism…a lot of them actually have and are curious to know more or tell you what they know and are sympathetic and kind. For younger children that may complain about a behavior or what not we simply just say that she does not understand.

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By: Christy

Christy — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:02:56 +0000

Hi Alaina - I love your response. That would work across the board, not just with disabilities, but different races, different weights / heights, etc. Everyone is indeed different form the next person, and just as wonderful!

By: Alaina

Alaina — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:10:38 +0000

I have a cousin with a disability. We just explain God makes everyone differently, but we don’t treat anyone that looks different than we do differently. Our girls are 7 and 4 so this works at this age.

Great blog post!