Inclusion with
imagination - that is what one pediatric occupational therapist set out to
accomplish with her special project.
Lynne Weber works with children with physical limitations at Hackensack
University Medical Center.
One of the things
she does with her patients is coloring, and quickly found out that book
illustrations of kids with disabilities didn't do them justice.
Weber took matters
into her own hands and created the Extraordinary Kids Project.
It will be a
coloring book full of drawings of kids with physical challenges in imaginative
scenes - integrating assistive and medical devices like walkers, braces and IV
poles.
A Kickstarter campaign helped fund the project. The book
is also being offered to hospitals and organizations around the country free of
charge.
Weber says 10,000
books have been donated so far.