MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WMOT) -- A pair of mid-state authors are using their personal experiences to help children more easily relate to people with disabilities using wheelchairs.
Author Carrie Case has been in wheel-chair since childhood. Co-author Faith Ecklund has used a wheelchair since she was injured in a car accident in 1997.
With their new book “Our friends in Chairs with Wheels” Ecklund says the pair hope to take some of the discomfort out of of talking about disabilities and the people who have them.
“It’s not strange or different to see somebody using wheelchair, but it’s just somebody else’s normal, and kids can ask questions and they can talk with somebody in a wheel chair and it’s not something that should be avoided.”
Ecklund says that while the book is meant for children, she says it’s actually adults who seem to hold the most misconceptions about people with disabilities. They hope those adults will learn something new as they read to book to the children in their lives.
Ecklund says she and case hope to add more books to the series in the future. You can find “Our friends in Chairs with Wheels” at Amazon.com and other online bookstores.