Barrier Free Manitoba

"For too long people with disabilities have been seen as 'special,' as different, as a totally separate group. People with disabilities have been delegated to the special class, the little bus, to the separate program. Despite several decades of the inclusion movement, encouraging and demanding that people with disabilities be allowed to participate fully in society, we still turn first to our time honored tradition of creating yet another special program. Why can't we get past this desire to create special and separate programs? Why does our society still tend to see people with disabilities as so terribly different? Why can't we begin to recognize that those of us with disabilities are more like the able-bodied than different? Let's start at the beginning. Some of children's first impressions of their world come from reading picture books with parents and teachers. Yet how many children's books have characters who have a disability? Very few, I'm sad to say."
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20090412/NEWS/904129979/1078&ParentProfile=1055