Displays, Events, & Special Guests:

Elementary School

• Invite Kids on the Block puppet show to the Elementary School
Contact Kids on the Block or call Kelly Hickok at the Richmond Resources for Independent Living at (804) 353-6503.

• Bring service animals to schools for an assembly. Contact The Seeing Eye, Incfor more information.



• Have a movie night each Friday night in the gymnasium that features an empowering movie that the whole community is invited to (could be made into a PTA fundraiser). Movies that could be shown include, but are not limited to:
  

• Have therapists talk to classes about what they do and why with students with disabilities



• Post interesting disability facts, pictures and biographies of people with disabilities or a disability history timeline on bulletin boards in the hallways. www.museumofdisability.org/society_timeline.asp



• Have students create posters to raise awareness about disabilities and hold a contest (winner gets a prize). www.glogster.com for creating electronic posters



• Have a student read a biography of someone famous with a disability during morning announcements each week during the month of October

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