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Dear Friend
Do you like the winter? Reduced daylight can have a significant impact on our well-being. Imagine being in the dark all the time.
Helen Keller (1880-1968) was a remarkable woman, an author and a powerful advocate for disability rights, women’s suffrage and racial equality. She was also deafblind. Perhaps you have seen the film The Miracle Worker? The film tells the story of her life and shows how Ann Sullivan, a graduate of the Perkins School for the Blind, taught Helen to make sense of her world. Over time, Helen learnt to communicate via sign language, to read and write in Braille, to touch-lip read, and to speak. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Helen Keller said, ‘The world is full of suffering but it is also full of the overcoming of it.’
The articles that follow have been written by other remarkable people and prove the truth of that statement. Read on to be inspired and enlightened.
Kind regards
Nicola Watson
Additional Needs Support Coordinator
The courage to continue
Olivia reflects on the impact that persistence, self-belief and the support of family made as she daily took small steps towards recovery and realising her big dreams. Despite setbacks and heartbreak, it is the courage to continue that counts.
Overcoming anxiety to raise awareness of autism
Alex's book Thinking Club: A Filmstrip of My Life as A Person with Autism traces his journey from childhood fears to becoming a public speaker, trainer, blogger and film maker. Here he shares some of his journey.
Can you help?
Have you 'been there, done that and got the T shirt’? We'd love to help you use your experience to help others.
Additional Needs support from Care for the Family
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