Dealing with Disabilities
Link to Article:
Magazine:
Ensign
Month and Year Published:
January, 1993
Page Number:
66
Description:
Encourages understanding, accepting and offering to help persons wtih disabilities.
Quotations:
As disciples of Jesus Christ, we are taught to love and accept all of our Father’s children. That includes those around us who have physical, emotional, and mental disabilities. es, if ye have love one to another.” (John 13:35.)
When we do not understand, a person who suffers from depression may seem to lack faith. A person who is hard of hearing may seem unresponsive. A child with a behavior disorder may seem to lack proper discipline.
One mother who has a child with a disability hopes others will understand her child’s abilities, as well as her disabilities. “My child is 90 percent typical and only 10 percent disabled,” she said, “but most people notice only her disabilities.”
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