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Big Little Things
One of the greatest things about such centers is the benefit to morale, where patients can mix and see all types of handicaps. Where one hasn’t the use of his arms to any great extent, he learns to do as much as possible with what he has. One who has lost the use of his legs learns to work without them. One "polio" learns to help another and acquires a spirit of "help others rather than be helped."...
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Title: Big Little Things
Creator: n/a
Date: November 1933
Format: Article
Publication: The Polio Chronicle
Source: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives
Location: p.3
Keywords: Advocacy; Diagnoses & Diseases; Disease; Georgia; Health & Medicine; Identity; Independent Living; Institutions; Medicine & Science; Physical Disability; Policy; Polio; Psychology; Rehabilitation; Social Welfare & Communities; Warm Springs Foundation
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Science, Health & Technology; Social Movements & Advocacy
Funding Support Provided By: NEC Foundation of America