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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 614165" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>what Lisa describes is what our guidance counselors are ALL supposed to do in the elem grades. In the upper grades, if these issues arise, the same things are done along with assignments in most classes to help the kids understand. Assignments like essays on the impact of disabilities, of bullying those iwth disabilities, etc.... for lang arts and the cause and effect of various disabilities and health issues. The elem J went to for 1-4th grades (elem is only through grade 5 here) had a counselor who did an incredible job with this. NO ONE in J's class made overmuch to do about the kids with disabilities, even the invisible ones. If it started, the other kids would either stop it or get an adult involved to stop it. Then the one fourth grade teacher tried to bully a couple of the kids. Her entire world turned upside down because the other kids ALL staged a rebellion, refusing to cooperate with anything she attempted to get them to do until she started to be kind to the kids iwth disabilities. </p><p></p><p>I firmly believe that much of the stigma is because people don't know what is going on, so they make false assumptions, like Travis doesn't have good hygiene or see a dentist because he has bad breath. When they learn what the real problem is, and maybe how it feels, they are more compassionate. If that doesn't work, a few extra homework assignments at least makes it less popular to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 614165, member: 1233"] what Lisa describes is what our guidance counselors are ALL supposed to do in the elem grades. In the upper grades, if these issues arise, the same things are done along with assignments in most classes to help the kids understand. Assignments like essays on the impact of disabilities, of bullying those iwth disabilities, etc.... for lang arts and the cause and effect of various disabilities and health issues. The elem J went to for 1-4th grades (elem is only through grade 5 here) had a counselor who did an incredible job with this. NO ONE in J's class made overmuch to do about the kids with disabilities, even the invisible ones. If it started, the other kids would either stop it or get an adult involved to stop it. Then the one fourth grade teacher tried to bully a couple of the kids. Her entire world turned upside down because the other kids ALL staged a rebellion, refusing to cooperate with anything she attempted to get them to do until she started to be kind to the kids iwth disabilities. I firmly believe that much of the stigma is because people don't know what is going on, so they make false assumptions, like Travis doesn't have good hygiene or see a dentist because he has bad breath. When they learn what the real problem is, and maybe how it feels, they are more compassionate. If that doesn't work, a few extra homework assignments at least makes it less popular to do. [/QUOTE]
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