I found this article on my Facebook news feed this morning, and I wanted to share it with you.  It talks about how important relationships between children with special needs and children who are typically developing are.  The mother in the article talks about how it will take work on the parents part to get these relationships going, but worth it in the end.  My favorite part of the article in when they say that "they are children first."

I know my students love to be in specials, lunch, and recess with their typical developing peers.  The kids will ask questions about my students because they are curious (as most children are).  Myself and my assistants always answer the kids with honest explanations and try to explain that my students are MORE alike them than they are different.  :)

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