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Kids ADA 2008 Art Contest Winner!
Ciarra Brown, Central City Elementary School (3rd grade)
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Congress designated October as National Disability Employment Awareness Month. The West Virginia legislature designated the third week of October as Disability History Week.
Every October, Mountain State Centers for Independent Living staff and consumers (people with disabilities who receive supports and services at MTSTCIL) conduct a Kids ADA (American with Disabilities Act ) educational program in local elementary schools in Cabell, Wayne, and Raleigh counties.
The Kids ADA program is offered to elementary students in grades third through fifth and middle school students grades sixth through eighth.
This educational program is designed to promote awareness of people with disabilities. The program provides an opportunity for students to interact with people with disabilities and to learn more about the assistive technologies that people with disabilities use, such as wheelchairs and seeing eye dogs.
MTSTCIL believes that if we promote disability awareness at an early age, we can reduce attitudinal barriers and help children to realize that we are all more alike than different.
Program topics include:
Feedback from young people who have participated in this program tells us that with this interaction makes them feel more comfortable and understanding of people with disabilities. From year to year students remember MTSTCIL staff and always enjoy talking about their experiences meeting people with disabilities.
We invite schools, boys and girls clubs, and any young peoples group to call us to schedule a Kids ADA presentation at any time during the year. This program is available at no fee to any kids group in Cabell, Wayne or Raleigh counties.
For more information or to schedule a Kids ADA presentation please contact:
