People who overcame

Mental_Floss always has tons of tidbits of information, but one of the latest blogs featured people who overcame disabilities. We just talked about disabilities in one of my education classes, so I thought this would be appropriate to add. There are several stories of people overcoming physical disabilities and Beethoven with his deafness is included. I also just learned about how this affected Beethoven in my Music History class. Turns out he wrote a letter to a friend talking about contemplating suicide. It eventually comes around to saying that while he feels like killing himself, he decides to stay alive for his art (music). As teachers we all need to make sure that any disabled student in a classroom is encouraged and feels like they can achieve anything anyone else is doing because most of the time they can. They can do great things with hard work, just like the anyone else.