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Volunteers with disabilities share insights with kids

June 25th, 2008

From the Boston Globe:

Volunteers with disabilities in Burlington, Massachusetts, visit all of the town’s second-grade classrooms each year to let kids know what it’s like to live “differently” with their disabilities.

“We want to help kids not to be afraid of people with disabilities,” said the group’s chairman.

David Murphy, who has diabetes, explained how he lost part of his left leg after it failed to heal from a bad bruise, as the second-graders passed around an extra prosthetic leg he had brought with him.

“Were you sad when you didn’t have your leg?” Nisha Chhayani, from Nelson’s class, asked Murphy.

“Well, I was at first, a little bit,” he said. “Then, I wasn’t anymore.”

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