Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott urges young people with disabilities to ‘be proud’

“We all want to be different — different hairstyles, different cars, different clothes, different schools, different everything.  What better way to be different than to have a disability, if you can embrace it … and be proud of the person that you are.  But you can’t expect every child to have that inner confidence to feel like that.  It’s up to all of us in society to create a space where they feel included.

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Topics:
Inclusion and access

Author:
Emily Ackew

Source:
ABC 7:30

Date published:
Wed 29th Jun, 2022