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How-to checklist: People with disabilities

Published: Saturday, Nov. 13, 1999

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  1. Realize people with disabilities are children of God; have feelings, talents.

  2. Communicate, interact; speak to, not down to, the person.

  3. Remember all have something to offer; all have challenges.

  4. Reach out; help a child with disability, be a friend.