Summary
Contents
Just the Same on the Inside: Understanding Diversity and Supporting Inclusion in Circle Time, with Juan Bornman's series of stories about children with disabilities, presents explanations of the nature and causes of their difficulties to help children improve understanding and relationships with their peers.
This resource also provides information for adults about the disability or difference, and Circle Time activities for young people aged 6 to 8 and 8 to 11.
This book can provide a term's work on inclusion or one story and set of activities can be selected to prepare a class or group for the inclusion of a new member who has a difficulty. The program also encourages reflection on difference and individuality.
My Sister, Chantelle
My Sister, Chantelle
My Sister, Chantelle
Information
In this story Ashley's sister Chantelle is blind. Many children may not have met partially sighted children in school and this story gives an opportunity for them to recognise the difficulties that such children and adults face in the outside world. Ashley is rightly proud of her sister's achievements and as she highlights these, your children will come to understand that, with help and apparatus such people can live a near normal life.
You may find the following information about blindness useful.
- Blindness may be caused by heredity, accident or disease.
- A hereditary disease, called retinitis pigmentosa is a common cause of blindness which affects 1.2 million people worldwide.
- Education of the blind was begun by Valentin Haüy, who published ...