Prime opportunities abound to answer questions about your child. Have your child join a school club. Approach the adult sponsoring the club with your idea and make him or her a partner on successfully integrating your child. Offer to volunteer, but take a backseat where your child is concerned. After-school activities such as gymnastics, dance, team sports and art classes abound for the regular education population.
Parents can approach whoever is in charge and explain their child's special needs.
Often with simple modifications, the child with a disability can be successful in many programs where potential peers hang out after school. Dixie Frantz is a writer and mother of three children, one of whom was born with cerebral palsy. I support Jerry Lewis and his work. Yes, but Lewis has to go. Lewis and the telethon are degrading.