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Issue 36, Fall 2009

Close to Home

Jackie Brown prided herself on teaching her students about disabilities. But could she confront her own feelings about her mother and polio?

Topic

Ability

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February 22, 2016

Take It From Me: Auditory Processing Disorder in Class

This high school student with APD shares some classroom and teaching techniques that helped her succeed—and that can benefit all students.

Topic

Ability

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Issue 43, Spring 2013

Seamless Teaching : Navigating the Inclusion Spectrum

Teaching Tolerance illustration of chalkboard with words and draws of Inclusive, Idea, diverse

Giving Gen Ed teachers the tools to realize the potential of inclusive classrooms.

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Ability

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Word Work

Making Words

Making Words is a hands-on activity in which students learn how adding and moving letters can create new words.

Grade Level

3-5

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RL.3-5.4, RI.3-5.4, L.3-5.4

July 19, 2014

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Informational

Hidden Figures of Women's History: Cathay Williams

Formerly enslaved Cathay Williams, in an Army uniform, carrying a rifle.

Nearly 80 years before women officially were allowed to serve in the U.S. Army, former slave Cathay Williams did so, patrolling the western United States as a member of the all-black Buffalo Soldiers.

Valerie Haeder

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Class Gender & Sexual Identity

Subject

History

July 30, 2018

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Issue 42, Fall 2012

Meeting Mathew

Illustration of a boy sitting alone at a lunch table

Students with hidden disabilities should not be lost in the shuffle or ostracized.

Topic

Ability

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Issue 40, Fall 2011

The Knight and the Cellist

Toni Giarnese found inspiration in her job thanks to a disabled boy who looked a lot like a knight in shining armor.

professional development

A Kind and Just Parent

This piece is to accompany An Unconditional EmbraceRead an excerpt from Ayers's book, A Kind and Just Parent.

July 6, 2009

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Stephanie Crist

Stephanie Allen Crist is a professional writer and disability rights advocate. Her unending advocacy adventure started shortly before her three children with autism received their medical diagnoses. Stephanie is the author of Discovering Autism / Discovering Neurodiversity and First Steps: Understanding Autism. She aspires to found a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of information available to people with neurological differences and their allies. Learn more by visiting www.StephanieAllenCrist.com.

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Issue 13, Spring 1998

Rising to the Challenge

A Louisiana Children's Museum exhibit takes the "dis" out of disability.

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Ability

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