"Why Do Some People Use Wheelchairs?" is a book full of questions about people with different types of disabilities. The disabilites range anywhere from being deaf to being paralyzed.

This is a great book to read to kids that have questions about people with disabilities. Children tend to poke fun at people who are different, so this book may help them understand why people can be different. I felt this book had very appropriate answers. I found it very useful.

In the classroom, I would bring a braille book from the local library and let the kids explore the pages to see how blind people read. I would also take my class to the special education class and introduce my students to the other children who have disabilities. I would let them see how the special education kids spend their school day, and show them how the special education kids are kids just like them. In my school the average kids were seperated from the special educations kids so you never got a chance to interact. This way my students would learn how important it is to respect the special education kids and not poke fun at their disabilities. ( )