Labeled Disabled: a film

Just heard about Labeled Disabled, a film about educating children about disabilities.

"During the last decade, classroom teacher, Maggie Doben, has worked with early childhood students, helping them to explore and understand physical disabilities. The transformation of perception is an amazing process. Each year as the lessons begin, they reveal the stereotypes and discriminatory behaviors that are imposed by society. LABELED DISABLED addresses curriculum that challenges those biases and demonstrates, through first hand experience that they are stereotypes, not reality. Watch what actually happens in the classroom as children discuss and challenge prejudice."

A trailer can be found here.

What's interesting about this curriculum is that it involves bringing in people with disabilities as speakers so the kids can ask questions and learn first hand about stereotypes. I found the opening segment in the trailer typical of my experiences with doing handicap awareness classes with third graders over the years, when given the opportunity, which is always a gift.

h/t Wendy Harbour, SDS list serv