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Exploring Differences with Read-Alouds
While you can’t really tell from this picture, I was born with cerebral palsy. I could do almost everything any of my friends and classmates did…unless it required any degree of balance. My feet pointed inward, and it was often a battle to remain upright and walking. During Kindergarten I had to wear leg braces (instruments of torture), and my poor mother spent every morning wrestling me into them while I screamed and squirmed. Like any child with a visible difference, I felt like an outcast in the classroom. My neighbourhood friends were used to my gait and never gave it a second thought, but gym class at school was torture for me. No one picked me for their team
Exploring Differences with Read-Alouds
While you can’t really tell from this picture, I was born with cerebral palsy. I could do almost everything any of my friends and classmates did…unless it required any degree of balance. My feet pointed inward, and it was often a battle to remain upright and walking. During Kindergarten I had to wear leg braces (instruments of torture), and my poor mother spent every morning wrestling me into them while I screamed and squirmed. Like
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