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    It’s Hard Not To Stare: Helping Children Understand Disabilities
    It’s Hard Not To Stare: Helping Children Understand Disabilities
    It’s Hard Not To Stare: Helping Children Understand Disabilities
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    It’s Hard Not To Stare: Helping Children Understand Disabilities

    By Tim J Huff, The Honourable David C Onley and Jan Fukumoto

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    It’s Hard Not to Stare is the second book unpacking StreetLevel’s children’s Compassion Series. The material encourages children to look at their world through the lens of compassion and understanding, rather than assumption, judgment or fear. Tim believes this approach will impact the way we care for, and befriend, people in our communities and beyond, and that when we nurture compassion in a child in one area of life, the potential is greater that this goodness will spill over into all other areas. Tim Huff addresses issues related to disabilities in this book, as he did homelessness in the first of the series, applying the same tender and truthful prose, along with bright and courageous child-friendly illustrations, which have been heightened by the insights and wisdom of his professional peers, educators, moms and dads.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCastle Quay Books
    Release dateSep 15, 2013
    ISBN9781927355299
    It’s Hard Not To Stare: Helping Children Understand Disabilities
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    Tim J Huff

    Tim has dedicated his adult life to full-time charitable work, serving, learning and teaching across North America and internationally. Throughout his career, he has combined his passion for visual arts, writing and music with his commitment to social justice and compassion-focused initiatives. He is an acclaimed speaker, a best-selling author and award-winning author-illustrator of children’s books. His book titles, of which seven have either been nominated for or won national awards, include: Bent Hope: a Street Journal, Dancing with Dynamite: Celebrating Against the Odds (which won Best Canadian Book of the Year award in 2011), The Yuletide Factor: Cause for Perpetual Comfort and Joy, and his previous illustrated children’s books, The Cardboard Shack Beneath the Bridge: Helping Children Understand Homelessness, It’s Hard Not to Stare: Helping Children Understand Disabilities, The Honour Drum: Sharing the Beauty of Canada’s Indigenous People with Children, Families and Classrooms, Am I Safe: Exploring Fear and Anxiety with Children, Make Way for the Christmas Hush , and The Jellybean Kid-A Tender Family-friendly Story About a Young Boy’s Difficult Health Journey, all published by Castle Quay Books.

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      It’s Hard Not To Stare - Tim J Huff

      FOREWORD

      As Ontario’s first Lieutenant Governor with a physical disability, I adopted accessibility as the overarching theme of my term of office. I defined accessibility as that which enables people to achieve their full potential.

      I chose this definition because I wanted people to understand that while the ubiquitous blue and white wheelchair symbol shows the location of physically accessible facilities, it doesn’t mean that all barriers to accessibility have been removed. While such things as ramps, automatic doors and wheelchair parking spots have helped people with disabilities greatly, another kind of barrier still stubbornly remains.

      In fact, the barrier that most often affects people with disabilities is not physical or part of their own condition. It is instead attitudinal, other people’s attitudes.

      Over the years in various speeches, I have asked this question: When you meet someone with a disability for the first time, what do you see; their disability or their ability within?

      We’d all like to say we see the ability because it’s an answer that makes us feel good. But we all know that is not true: we all see the disability. And there’s nothing wrong with that as long as we don’t let the first glance become a longer look that then becomes a stare, a negative

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