[tri-med] Re: Disability Awareness

I was just thinking of this one!  You beat me to the punch, Jennifer :)
Loren (wife to Kraig, mom to Keren, T18, two years old (9/27/02))
Southeast Michigan
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On Monday, November 15, 2004, at 10:25 PM, Jennifer Vanderbeek wrote:

> I don't know if you know what ABC's Ultimate Makeover Home Edition is, 
> but
> they redid a house for a family with a son who is autistic and blind 
> awhile
> ago.  To help the designers understand what it feels like to be 
> autistic,
> they sat the head guy in a chair with rocks on it (to show how it 
> feels to
> be sore and uncomfortable due to lack of repositioning or just 
> sensitivity),


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