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Author: Julie Weissman-Steinbaugh

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  • Julie Weissman-Steinbaugh was the first physically disabled student to attend her local high school and discovered the power of words as an eighth grader, when her letter to the editor of Newsday against the portrayal of disabled people by the Cerebral Palsy Telethon was published. Today, she lives with her husband and teenage daughter in Las Vegas, where she chairs Nevada’s Statewide Independent Living Council.

  • Lessons in Belonging

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    “The average able-bodied stranger, though, only notices the ways my body is different from theirs.” In her essay, Lessons in Belonging, Julie Weissman-Steinbaugh details her experience growing up with cerebral palsy.