Kids ADA 2007

Congress designated October as National Disability Employment Awareness Month. The West Virginia legislature designated the third week of October as Disability History Week.

Every year during October, Mountain State Centers for Independent Living staff and consumers in Huntington and Beckley conduct a Kids ADA (American with Disabilities Act ) education program in local elementary schools in Cabell, Wayne, and Raleigh counties.

The Kids ADA program is offered to elementary students in grades third through fifth and middle school students grades sixth through eighth.

This educational program is designed to promote awareness of people with disabilities. The program provides an opportunity for students to interact with people with disabilities and to learn more about the assistive technologies that people with disabilities use, such as wheelchairs and seeing eye dogs.

MTSTCIL believes that if we promote disability awareness at an early age, we can reduce attitudinal barriers and help children to realize that we are all more alike than different.