The Story of Ashley Miller aka FATWRECKED

If you have a child with a disability you live in a different Country. I heard that being said on the radio soon after Ashley‟s death. I re-member thinking at the time “How true”. For over eighteen years Kerry and I have been in a different country. A country where every little assistance had to be fought for, a country where your child was often seen as a burden to the rest of society, a country where you would be ignored, stared at, pitied, etc.. A country where you were constantly told “you should have told us that you needed special assistance before”, You could not do many things on the spur of the moment. A country where your child was lumped in with other children with disabilities (whether physical or intellectual). I hope this book not only enlightens and encourages others (especially teachers, bureaucrats, politicians, etc.) to treat people with disabilities as individuals and to stop the over catego-rization. If you know anybody who has a disability or has a close relative (especially a child) who has a disability please try to in-clude them, please don‟t judge them and please be tolerant towards them.
Tony Miller (2009)

To encourage people to see other people who have a disability as an individual who can enhance society for the better rather than being a liability and to help people to understand the importance of not categorizing disabled people by what they are and aren‟t capa-ble of. Also to encourage people to be inclusive of disabled people they may know from School or elsewhere in their social groups and to realize that disabled people can contribute a lot to their group.
Kylie Price (2009)