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Disability YA Fiction

Disability YA Fiction. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, “Of the 53.9 million school-aged children (aged 5 to 17) in the U.S. civilian non-institutionalized population, about 2.8 million (5.2 percent) were reported to have a disability in 2010.”

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Disability YA Fiction

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  1. Disability YA Fiction According to the U.S. Census Bureau, “Of the 53.9 million school-aged children (aged 5 to 17) in the U.S. civilian non-institutionalized population, about 2.8 million (5.2 percent) were reported to have a disability in 2010.” If it is important for our students to see themselves in the literature they read; and, if it is equally important for our students to see the “other” in the literature they read, then it is time to include fiction that explores disability in our classrooms. So, how do we do it? Welcome to “What’s Normal?: Disability YA Fiction in the High School Curriculum”

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