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Celebrate With Our Children That Being Different Is Normal
Because: Every human is like ALL other humans, SOME other humans, and NO other human.
The common ground that we share as humans, is undoubtedly our humanity.
I have a friend who has a severe disability and is unable to do much for herself. Still, the urge to feel valued has always been at the forefront of her mind. She is a smart woman.
To that, with the help of her parents, (her primary carers), she set up interviews in quite a number of local schools, with principals, about an idea she had for a job.
Her plan was to be able to visit schools on one day each week, and work with classes to speak about disability.
Her speech is not easy to interpret, which meant that there was a need on both sides, for planning and preparation.
It proved to be difficult all round, and was doomed to failure from the outset, mostly because of the demands for her being taken from one class to another, to classrooms not geographically close to another one. This meant that teachers had to organize supervision for their class while relocating Sara to her next classroom.
With a lot more thought behind the venture, it may have worked out better, but for the time…
