Associates, she helps others with disabilities find employment. In her spare time, she speaks to youth groups at churches and schools, encouraging them to embrace who they are, to treat others as they want to be treated.
She finds teaching moments — small opportunities to change the way those around her think about people with disabilities.
It happens when children gossip loudly to their parents that she has no hands; at fast-food drive-throughs or in line at the grocery store. She explains she was born that way, instructs that she can handle her own loose change from store clerks and invites onlookers to touch the place where her hands should be.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Changing hearts, one at a time
Gracie Bonds Staples has written a number of wonderful articles in the AJC about disability issues. This article about Cynthia Patterson is a nice story about one of the career specialists at Briggs and Associates...
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