December 8, 2011

Northwood Elementary School holds 4th Annual Disability Awareness Day; students learn to live for a moment with a disability, then learn about the aids which help children overcome them

Northwood Elementary School students warmly received visitors from Rochester's  Advocacy Center on December 8, 2011 to celebrate National Disability Awareness Day and learn about the struggles and opportunities for challenged students. 

Students worked with Advocacy Center volunteers to experience first-hand the way disabilities can hamper movement, sight and learning, then how these difficulties are overcome.  In the course of the event, students' perception about those who have different mobility, learning and other struggles, is softened in an effort to prevent stigmatization.

Coordinator is School Nurse Angie Grasso who may be reached at 585-392-1000 ext. 4512.