It is not always easy for parents to face children's questions about disability. "Neither more nor less: disability explained to boys and girls" is a story belonging to the collection of Notebooks of Education in Values of the Institute for Women and the Center for Educational Research and Documentation (CIDE).
This collection covers topics such as immigration, children's rights ... treated in a positive way. Thus, the different issues can be approached in a close and understandable way for the little ones, who may have friends or relatives with a disability, even if they have it themselves.
At story "Neither more nor less" the issue of disability He is treated through the experience of an eight-year-old boy, Guillermo, who at school meets very different children with whom he can play and chat and can also learn something different from each one according to his abilities.
Through Guillermo and his friends, and with the pedagogical keys necessary to work on education in values in Infant and Primary (and with children of those ages), children learn what a disability is, what types of disabilities exist, personalized attention that each one needs, the enriching differences between people ...
The titles of some chapters, in the form of a question, are "What does it mean to have a disability?", "What things can we do if we have a disability?", "Do boys and girls need different attention?" or "What is sign language?" ... thus offering a complete and varied view on the subject. In Slideshare you can read the story.
In the end we are all different and we all have good things to teach others, and it is that positive and natural attitude that runs away from melodrams that predominates in "Neither more nor less", a story that explains disability to children.
