“We really and truly believe all kids can learn to read and write and we think all means all. We don’t think it depends on the degree of intelligence, the measured capability in vision or hearing, we think that we can teach all children to read and write. We don’t think that’s necessarily easy or quick but we think it’s really important. and the more disabled the child the more important it becomes.
The more that your disability changes your ability to act on your world, the more important it becomes that you control the people and the experiences that you’re going to be a part of. The only way to do that is with good communication and with the ability to read and write.”– David Koppenhaver
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Give a listen to this valuable hour long talk by Karen Erickson, Ph.D. (Director of the Center for Literacy and Disabilities Studies, Department of Allied Health Sciences, School of Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).