disability awareness

parent resources

Building Compassion How to talk to your children about disabilities and how to support families of children with special needs.

Making Friends with Children With Autism

teacher resources

FRIENDS WHO CARE® is designed to help children better understand what it means and how it feels to be a young person with a disability. This educational program gives students the opportunity to learn what is involved when someone has a disability and how they adapt to live life, go to school, or work as independently as possible.The goals of the program are simple: to encourage typically developing children to accept their peers with disabilities as people first and also to find ways to include everyone in school and after-school activities. www.easterseals.com/site/PageServer?pagename=ntl_friendswhocare Disability Activities.pdf Teachers Guide to Disability Awareness - Elementary School.pdf

Disability Awareness Activity Packet - Activities and Resources for Teaching Students About Disabilities - also has resources for books, TV and videos. www.dvusd.org/assets/pdfs/department_education/Disability_Awareness.pdf

Building Disability Awareness & Inclusion - Resources, activities, books, etc. - http://kcsos.kern.org/SpecialEd/stories/storyReader$263

General Lessons and Activities for Awareness of People with Disabilities - www.venturacountyselpa.com/CommunityAbilityAwareness/GeneralAbilityAwareness/LessonsActivitiesAwarenessofDisabilities.aspx

Anti-Bias Lesson Plans and Resources for K-12 Educators - www.adl.org/education/curriculum_connections/fall_2005/

National Museum of American History - a virtual tour of The Disability Rights Movement exhibit. www.americanhistory.si.edu/disabilityrights

Museum of DisABILITY History - Here you will find various resources for your classroom including lesson plans, glossaries, activities, and educational information. - www.museumofdisability.org/teachers_resources.asp

Have you ever wondered what it's like to have a disability?

How does a person who can't see read? Can a person with a physical disability play sports? If you couldn't hear, how would you talk with your friends? Do people with disabilities get frustrated, have friends, like ice cream? This web site can help you begin to answer your questions about disabilities. Online activities for kids. - www.iidc.indiana.edu/CEDIR/kidsweb/

ideas for a school wide disability awareness fair

Disability History and Awareness Resource Guide

Disability Fair Ideas

Understanding Our Learning Differences, Inc. - www.understandingourdifferences.org - developed by the Newton Public Schools.

Disability Awareness Starts Here (D.A.S.H.) - www.ttdash.org - works with grades 2-5.

disability etiquette

Tips on interacting with people who have disabilities, a series of resource pages covers the basics, gives terminology tips, and includes closer looks at etiquette for interaction with people who have a range of different disabilities. - http://www.unitedspinal.org/disability-etiquette/

Disability etiquette according to Easter Seals. - http://www.easterseals.com/site/PageServer?pagename=ntl_etiquette

For a more in-depth discussion of People First Language - with more examples - you may refer to this excellent resource:

http://www.disabilityisnatural.com/images/PDF/pfl09.pdf

"Person First Language - Focus on the Person; Not the Disability": http://learningdisabilities.about.com/od/assessmentandtesting/qt/personfirst.htm

books

disability awareness books for kids

Children's Literature for Disability Awareness.pdf

Books for Kids to Read on Disability Awareness.pdf

other resources

Celebrities with Disabilities.pdf

NOTE: F-SEPAC is providing the information above for educational purposes as a public service.

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