Easter Seals Wisconsin invites public and private schools, early childhood programs (preschool, family and group daycare, child care, Head Start, pre-kindergarten, etc.), faith and community-based youth organizations and community groups across our state to join us in presenting Avenues to Understanding, a disability awareness program, to young people across our state.

The Avenues to Understanding Educational Guide, free to those who wish to teach or share the program, is designed to provide an expanding knowledge of disabilities and disability issues for young people as they age.

Young children will be presented with an introduction to disabilities, will learn about what they are, and will be helped to look for similarities rather than differences when meeting someone with a disability.

Older kids will begin to explore the architectural and attitudinal barriers that may provide stumbling blocks to integration for people with disabilities and look at them in conjunction with their own need to “fit in”.

High school students are encouraged to explore their communities, to look at how people with disabilities are regarded and portrayed and to consider how people with disabilities might be affected by the same “real world” challenges they themselves are facing – independent living, college and jobs.

It is Easter Seals’ hope that Avenues to Understanding will help to shape or change attitudes and foster positive behaviors in ways that will make a direct impact in the lives of people with disabilities in Wisconsin.

Registering is easy. Just click on the button to the left and provide the requested information. Because Avenues is funded by grants, it is essential for us to gather this statistical infomation so that we can continue to provide Avenues to Understanding free of charge.

Once you submit your request, you will be sent a link via email where you can download the Avenues to Understanding materials