![]() ![]() Incorporate lessons on disability history into social studies and civics units. As with any history lesson we teach, it is crucial to include diverse voices throughout the year and across the grades, not just during that group’s dedicated month of awareness or celebration.īelow are five ways you can begin to incorporate disability history into your classroom. Youth advocacy has the power to make an incredible difference in the current state of our world. We also need to teach children how far we have come in history and how far we still need to go. Children need to see themselves represented throughout history to understand their identities and the identities of others. ![]() If we do not teach disability history in our classrooms, we are dismissing the identities of many of the youth we serve and many of their family members. In addition, our classroom communities contain many students with disabilities. Anyone from any racial, cultural, ethnic, religious, gender, or class identity can be affected by disability, either temporarily or permanently. However, we still frequently leave out the history and narratives of the disability community. ![]() We have made progress in exposing our students to the experiences of different racial, cultural, ethnic, religious, gender, and class identities. Our social studies and history curricula are amplifying a diversity of voices more and more over time. ![]()
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