TY - JOUR AU - Mays, June AB - 12 Teaching Young Gifted Children About Handicaps by June Mays My second and third grade class of gifted students in Tuscaloosa City I am Betsy. I have cerebral palsy. It Schools count among their favorite happened when I was four years studies a six-week unit on the old. I was in an accident falling off a handicapped. The purpose of the unit motorcycle. I was not wearing a hel- was to feel concern for the welfare of met, so my head was injured and the handicapped, to understand the my brain was damaged. I cannot meaning of the following terms: make my arms and hands do what I cerebral palsy, blindness, deafness, want them to do. It is hard for me to learning disability, emotional distur- hold things. I have special utensils 1 bance, speech disorder, mental use for eating, so I can feed myself. 1 retardation, and to identify careers for have to use a wheel chair and working with the handicapped. braces on my legs. I spend many lncluded in the unit was a field trip, a hours in therapy every day, learning center, and other group learning to walk as well as I can. my activities. TI - Teaching Young Gifted Children about Handicaps JF - G/C/T DO - 10.1177/107621757800100205 DA - 1978-03-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/teaching-young-gifted-children-about-handicaps-k0TLGSUHws SP - 12 EP - 15 VL - 1 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -