Donna Roberts on the ATTITUDE Essay Contest

Donna Roberts on the ATTITUDE Essay Contest

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United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Indiana

"I joke with everybody that I take a day, I sit at home with a two-liter bottle of Diet Pepsi and a huge box of tissues and I read all the essays,” recounts Donna about the Attitude Essay Contest. The contest encourages elementary and middle school students to write about their own attitudes or the attitudes of others. Donna says, “I firmly believe -- and the essays prove -- kids want to focus on what is the same, what is similar, what do they have in common with somebody, not what is something that's going to put up a barrier to them.” Donna Roberts, retired Executive Director of United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Indiana, was interviewed in 2013.

Indiana Disability History Project

Center on Aging and Community, Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, and Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities

2017-03-07T16:32:14.000Z

Donna Roberts - Interviewee

Jennie Todd - Interviewer

Peggy Holtz - Videographer/Editor

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Donna Roberts - ATTITUDE Essay Contest YouTube video, 00:04:58, from an interview by the Indiana Disability History Project on January, 2013, posted by "Indiana Disability History" on March 6, 2017, https://youtu.be/sm6KomF2V8Y

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