“Children with Disabilities ‘as Happy as Classmates’”

Carolyn Thompson, UCC DM board member and representative to UCC Wider Church Ministries, comments: “Good reading for anyone working with children in our churches and schools and society.”

Written by Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor of The Independent, this article reports from a study of 500 children that children with cerebral palsy veiw their life experiences much as other children do rather than in terms of their struggle, as able-bodied adults might view them.

To read the entire article, go to news.independent.co.uk/health/article2723237.ece

First published June 30 2007. Posted in SDS (The Society for Disability Studies) on www.uic.edu/orgs/sds/