{"id":596,"date":"2004-09-12T19:11:27","date_gmt":"2004-09-12T19:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=596"},"modified":"2004-09-12T19:11:27","modified_gmt":"2004-09-12T19:11:27","slug":"classroom_506","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"Classroom 506"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times Magazine has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/09\/12\/magazine\/12MAINSTREAMING.html\">article about Thomas<\/a>, a little boy with cerebral palsy and his parents&#8217; monumental effort to create a truly inclusive environment for him at school.  Thomas is nonverbal, a challenge that is especially difficult to overcome in a classroom setting.  Back in the day, I had friends with disabilities with varying levels of communication disorders.  The kids who were the most nonverbal were also the most socially isolated.  The able-bodied kids were, with time and familiarity, able to look past all kinds of physical impairments, but they were often intimidated by anyone who couldn&#8217;t talk.  The magazine article portrays Thomas as bright and sociable, which gives me some hope that things will turn out okay for him.<br \/>\nOn a related note, the POV series on PBS will be airing a documentary entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/pov2004\/freedommachines\/index.html\">Freedom Machines<\/a>, highlighting the role of assistive technology in the lives of people with disabilities.  Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/brokenclay.org\/journal\/index.php\">Katja<\/a> for the heads-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times Magazine has an article about Thomas, a little boy with cerebral palsy and his parents&#8217; monumental effort to create a truly inclusive environment for him at school. Thomas is nonverbal, a challenge that is especially difficult to overcome in a classroom setting. Back in the day, I had friends with disabilities <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=596' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-9C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}