Download the Disability Worksheet
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You can read through these and answer the questions for yourself, and if you like you can download a PDF (at right) to print out and write your answers on.
How do I feel about being a person with a disability?
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Do I feel comfortable talking about my disability with others?
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Do I think having a disability is something of which to be proud?
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Who in my life can I trust when I need to talk about my disability?
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What are some aspects of living with a disability where I struggle? What resources are out there to help me through those struggles?
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What are some activities that I want to do that I think I cannot do? Is there another way of doing the activity that would work for me?
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What are some things I can do that my friends cannot do?
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Suggestions For Further Reading About Disability:
Shapiro, Joseph No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement,
Times Books, ©1994
Fleischer, Doris & Zames, Frieda The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation, Temple Univ, ©2001
Charlton, James Nothing About Us, Without Us, University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1998