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