Disability is Natural Free Press - May 2006
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Kathie Snow, writer, publisher, parent has given us permission to post her email newsletter in the PLUK News feed. Her mission is to encourage new ways of thinking about disability and to help create a society in which all people are valued and included.
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Copyright May 2006 by Kathie Snow
In This Issue:
- Teacher Gifts, Summer Tees and Totes, and More at the Disability is Natural Online Store
- Featured Articles:
---"Wrong" Is Not Right!
---The Voice of Authority (and Knee-Jerk Reactions) - Life Stories of Adults with Disabilities Wanted!
- News to Use: Large Print Ministry and X-Men: The Last Stand
- Revolutionary Common Sense Articles
"Wrong" Is Not Right!
Copyright 2006, Revolutionary Common Sense by Kathie Snow, www.disabilityisnatural.com
"Wrong"---the word is
routinely used about people with disabilities. Listen as physicians and parents
talk about when they first realized "something was wrong" with a child.
Educators or service providers are told about a new student or "client," and
then ask, "What's wrong with him?" And a young girl sees a person with a visible
disability in the mall, tugs at her mother's hand, and asks, "What's wrong with
him?"
Download complete article - WrongRight.pdf
