1. Inclusive Schools Week: Dec. 5-9, 2016 Including ALL Abilities
By: Grace Su
Girl Scout, San Jose, CA
Gold Award Project
Dec 2016
By: Grace Su

2. Visible Disabilities Include…
Dwarfism
Missing Limbs
Down Syndrome
And Many More…
Visible Disabilities Include…

3. Invisible Disabilities Include
ADHD
Autism
Anxiety
Bipolar Disorder
And many more…
Invisible Disabilities Include

4. How do people with disabilities want you to see them?
How would you like to be seen?
How do people with disabilities want you to see them?

5. …People are more than just a disability. They are people first.
Big Brother
Baseball player
Likes Math
Artist
Actor
Ryan’s Flower Shows…
…People are more than just a disability. They are people first.
Expert Speller
Has Autism

6. Join the County Office of Education in taking the Person First Pledge
Pledge of Respect
I know that my words, attitudes, and actions can hurt others.
I promise to recognize that all people are people.
I promise to treat all people with respect.
I will identify people by their names, strengths, abilities and interests.
If I want to refer to a person’s disability, I will place the person first:
A person in a wheelchair
A student with down syndrome
A girl in special education classes
I will tell other people to place the person first.
Join the County Office of Education in taking the Person First Pledge

7. Practice: What’s the Right Phrase?
Wrong!
Right!
Disabled person
Down’s girl
Midget
Special ed. student
Retarded
Autistic boy
Person with a disability
Girl with Down Syndrome
Little Person, person with dwarfism
Student in a special ed. class
Person with an intellectual disability
Boy with autism
Practice: What’s the Right Phrase?
What should I call you?
By my name!

8. Myth: Only people with disabilities need help.
Who needs help?
We all do.
Glasses to help you see.
An agenda to know what homework to do.
Alarm clock help you get up in the morning.
A cross walk light to know when to walk across the street.
Myth: Only people with disabilities need help.

9. Why Inclusion in Schools is Important
It Reduces Students from being Marginalized
Diversity is Valued
Education is Equitable when ALL students have Access
Why Inclusion in Schools is Important

10. How Schools Can Be Inclusive
Student Aids
Classroom Supports
Modified Curriculum
How Schools Can Be Inclusive

11. Student Aids Can help the student understand what the teacher says
Can help keep the student from acting out
Knows the students and their needs
Student Aids

12. All help students access education.
Stepstools
Modified reading material
Braille
Modified tools
Dictating instead of writing
All help students access education.
Classroom Supports

13. Many students with disabilities require modified curricula to help them learn.
Extra time on tests
Smaller class sizes or more one-on- one time with the teacher
More time to take breaks
More visual, auditory or kinesthetic teaching
Modified Curriculum

14. We are all different and we all can learn together.

15. Please sign the Pledge of Respect!