ace H years (I will not say how many, because it begins to vertigo), when I started studying Teaching, specializing in Special Education, Professor of History commanded us to read Heidi ... What bullshit! (We all). Sure, it could not be ... We were already university how they would send us to read something!
However, took me a while to understand that reading Heidi was the perfect introduction to know that we come from a time when disability is magically cured with pure mountain air and, if they did not (the truth is that opportunities were scarce) little could be done.
Heidi is just one example of the many books in which there is the issue of disability and can serve different purposes. One of the goals can be met with these readings is the awareness, changing attitudes towards people with disabilities ...
Amazingly, even today still required such performances. Serve as the comment button which shows a girl with intellectual disability to refer to social relations in schools: "At school regulín, but the institute had no friends
none. I was alone and had no friends to talk to anyone, it was like a nuisance "
The material we provide in this post (probably many of you may know him) is a bibliography compiled by the Foundation Ruipérez Germain Sanchez and entitled "Disability in Children's Literature." It is a very complete job and that you will be helpful if you want to work reading taking as a starting point diversity.
