Children with disabilities are not children with disabilities
Every December 3, since 1992, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities is celebrated. The United Nations adopted this day to call attention to the need to create support for the inclusion of people with disabilities in society. Children with disabilities are considered to be those who have
Every December 3, since 1992, the International Day of Persons with Disabilitiesis celebrated. The United Nations adopted this day to call attention to the need to create support for the inclusion of people with disabilities in society.
Children with disabilities are considered to be those who have some physical, mental, intellectual or sensory deficiency that affects them when participating fully in society.
How to teach children to understand disability
My children go to a preferential school for children with motor disabilities. The school is fully adapted for children who have to travel in a wheelchair. Moreover, from early childhood education, children without disabilities are taught to help their peers, to understand them and to respect them. The relationship is beneficial for everyone.
Measures such as this, which seeks to raise awareness among children since childhood, improve the conditions of children with disabilities, since it integrates them into the group as equals.
There is a long way to go to create equal opportunities for children with disabilities although technology has greatly helped those children who have access to it to develop skills and skills that would otherwise be more complicated.
Beyond the business world or the policy where it is basic to develop programs within the reach of children with disabilities that take into account their needs, parents can contribute by teaching our children to understand disability:
- We must talk to them and make them understand that disability is not the same as disability. For sample, the video of a girl with visual impairment who sings while reading the letter in Braille. Your voice is wonderful.
- We can do activities with the senses: cover their eyes or ears so they know what it feels like when it is not seen, or not heard. This is how we foster the child's empathy towards children with disabilities.
- Bring them stories or stories of characters with disabilities.
- Encourage approach, play or friendship with children with disabilities.
In any case, respect and empathy are the pillars on which we must teach our children to understand disability.
