Children's Literature: Shaping the vision of Disability.

The purpose of this paper is to describe how unbiased stories depicting children with disabilities are used in elementary schools to describe multicultural perspectives. A multicultural approach will benefit the teaching of social acceptance as opposed to separating people into groups. There are many books for children which wins award and discuss disabilities that are written by well-meaning authors, but sadly, their stories are not true to life and do not really provide a sense of what it is like to have a disability. The omission of facts in popular books, and the promotion of stereotypes about individuals with disabilities that have their roots in many culture, unintended result of people dehumanizing involve. A teacher should make use of his or her creativity to create meaningful literature-based experiences that will appeal to the students. In addition to discussing the content of the story, one can extend the discussion to other topics related to the curriculum. It is important for teachers, parents, librarians, and students to recognize some blatant signs, as well as some more subtle signs, to look for a book about children's disabilities.