Belizeans living with disabilities struggle daily to accomplish regular tasks that the able-bodied population takes for granted.
So, they certainly don't need our judgment, or insensitive references to those disabilities. That's why the Ministry of Education and the National Resource Center for Inclusive Education (NaRCIE) held a disability etiquette workshop yesterday for educators and ministry managers on how to interact with the disabled without crossing lines.
The Manager of NaRCIE shared a few more details with the press on the objectives of the workshop:
Erlette Thomas - Manager, NARCIE
"Today, we're doing a session on disability etiquette. The purpose of the session is so that we can bring people together, people from the Ministry of Education, whether it be senior management, services areas, from all the different departments, so that they can learn to work with people, and to live among people with disabilities."
Reporter
Why do you think this is important?"
Erlett Thomas
"I think it is important because as one of the speakers in there said, the power of words. It is important that we know how to address people, how to deal with people, and how to accept people. As the manager of NARCIE, we advocate for people with disabilities, hence the reason why we want everybody to know what we do, how we do it, and why we do what we do."
NaRCIE continues to advocate for initiatives which promote inclusion within the education system and the public.
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