C2-Sunday News, May 18, 1980
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‘I'm just patted on the head’

FROM PAGE C1

hour, three times a week,
she receives physical
therapy from the semor
students.

“I get therapy under the
guidance of Suzanne Ox-
taby, a physiotherapist from
Vancouver Neurological
Centre. The student's help
me out of my chair, onto the
mat for therapy and back
into the wheelchair. It’s just
part of the day,” explains
Barbara.

Barbara finds the students
at Handsworth to be very
positive. “My generation will
be no problem. No twenty-
year-olds will be offering me
candy bars or money in the
shopping centres, which
does happen with older
people,” she says.

She feels the students are
easily able to understand her
handicap for what tt is -- a
physical limitation. “So
many of the older generation
assume that because I'm 1n a
wheelchair, I must also be

mentally retarded. My
friends never speak for me as
though I'm not there, but
older people do that a lot.”
adds Barbara.

Part of the

com-
munication problem,
suggests Barbara, stems

from a lack of eye contact.
“People have to look down
to see me. As a result, | am
often ignored or just patted
on the head,” she says.

Barbara fits smoothly into
the Handsworth
which is built

system
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vironment. A spot ts
reserved in the classroom for
her and when the class is
over, someone usually
checks with her to see if she
needs help to the next class.
“I don't get left behind
very often. I never feel
uncomfortable here. The
kids are not afraid of my
handicap, but I thmk people
outside the school are.
However, I think society is
changing and handicaps are
becoming better
derstood,” says Barbara.

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