Disability Awareness- Do It Right!: Your All-in-One How-to Guide: Tips, Techniques & Handouts for a Successful Awareness Day Book

Tips, techniques and handouts for conducting a successful disability awareness day. Simulation exercises--activities in which participants get into wheelchairs, tie on blindfolds or stuff earplugs into their ears - have become a popular "Awareness" event. But they've also come under fire from disability activists and educators, who say they're demeaning and inaccurate. DISABILITY AWARENESS -- DO IT RIGHT! is your all-in-one how-to guide from the Ragged Edge Online community, with tips, techniques and handouts for a successful Awareness Day. Short background articles and planning lists help you organize fun and effective Awareness Day activities that disability rights activists support. Concise, easy-to-read chapters show you how to carry out 6 different activities, how to handle follow-up discussion and even how to spur social change.