School-Age Series: Teaching Youth to Respect Differences

We all want to create welcoming environments where disabilities are viewed as a natural part of life. When your program says that it is “for all,” what does that mean and what does it look like? To create welcoming programs, we first need to assess what respect for disabilities looks like. We can then explore ways that we can teach children and youth in our programs to respect disability as a form of diversity. In this webinar, we will look at how we can use language and our interactions to model respect, and how we can use targeted activities to build a community that respects disabilities.