Hello :)

    I wanted to find more information about how schools plan to accommodate little people. This below is a file that gives some guidelines as to things and ways schools need to accommodate little people. I would like to see if the district this little girl is in already has something in place, or if it is going to be something where the parents will need to go to the school and have them make some of the necessary changes. There is a big problem  with this though and it is that in order for the parents to know that the child is unable to reach or have access to everything, the girl would have already had to have experienced not having access to something that was available to the children of average height. I think it's important to know the situations you are going to be in before the year takes place, but as I mentioned, I am not sure if this school does have any accommodations and adaptations for the child who is classiffied as a little person, but I would like to ask the school if they have ever seen this document and find out what the plan is once they do get the information. I would have liked to find a diary which was written by a little person who had entered school...preferrably junior high just as this little girl. http://lpamrs.memberclicks.net/assets/documents/School%20Info%20for%20dwarf%20children.pdf

If anyone has come up with specifics, please post the url's or videos. I'm also going to look at the library as well to see if there is a book thhat explains some of the challenges which exist with little people, as well as some examples of how her days went on that first day of junior high.

Monica Bloom