How do you talk to kids about others whom they perceive as being different?
Instead of sitting still in their religious school classrooms Sunday, the children of Congregation B'nai Tzedek participated in a morning-long series of interactive simulations of challenges people with special needs face every day at a disability awareness event entitled "Spread Over Us Your Sukkah."
B'nai Tzedek's recently formed special needs committee set up three stations throughout the synagogue. The first was a gross/fine motor station, at which the kids experimented with walkers, crutches and wheelchairs on an obstacle course. They also attempted to steady themselves on balance beams and platforms.
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