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TUSD Celebrates disABILITY
Awareness Week
NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Estella Zavala or Susan Cergol, 225-6437
Posted on: November 2, 2001
Two TUSD schools will celebrate disABILITY Awareness Week with special speakers and
activities designed to promote awareness of individuals with disabilities.
Grijalva Elementary School, 1795 W. Drexel Rd.
Tuesday, Nov. 6 — Students from the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and
Blind will share their experiences living with a disability from 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 8 — Representatives from the University of Arizona’s
SALT (Strategic Alternative Learning Techniques) Center will speak about the
accommodations and services available at the postsecondary level for students with
learning disabilities from 10:30 a.m.-noon.
Tuesday, Nov. 13 — Helen Enfield, a wheelchair user and volunteer with Top
Dog, will lead a short demonstration from 12:30-1:30 p.m. showing how her dog, Nutmeg,
helps her with everyday tasks. Top Dog is a local organization that trains service dogs
for people with disabilities.
Howenstine High Magnet School, 555 S. Tucson Blvd.
Monday, Nov. 5: Janet K. Miller, a self-taught artist, will share her experiences
with dyslexia and her work in "reverse glass painting" with freshmen art/mentors
from 9:45 a.m.-2:45 p.m. She will return to teach the technique to advanced art students
from 1-1:50 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9 and Nov. 16.
Miller lived and worked in West Africa in the early 1980s and first encountered reverse
glass painting in Senegal. She later found her dyslexia to be an asset in recreating the
technique, which requires the artist to work inside out and backwards.
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