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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003;157:1159.

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IN 2001, a team of artists, historians, and grade-school students met to create a public exhibit on the history of disability. There were historical presentations, parent discussion groups, art sessions with children, and a school forum linking children from an honors English class with children from a "varying exceptionalities" classroom. Led by renowned artist Xavier Cortada, the team created some artwork, a Web site, and a timeline of disability scrawled across the art gallery's wall. Out of this interaction also came this brief essay on what it means to be different, written as an introduction to the art exhibit.

WHAT SOME CHILDREN TAUGHT US ABOUT LIVING WITH A DISABILITY

To have a disability is to be different. There's something about your body that makes you different from most other people. Maybe your eyes don't see or your ears don't hear. Maybe your legs don't move you through space or your brain doesn't get you through a book. That's it. It . . . [Full Text of this Article]

WHAT THE HISTORY OF DISABILITY IN THE UNITED STATES CAN TEACH FAMILIES AND THEIR CHILDREN
Jeffrey P. Brosco, MD, PhD
Department of Pediatrics
University of Miami
PO Box 016820 (D-820)
Miami, FL 33101
(e-mail: jbrosco@miami.edu)