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I can remember the very moment that I knew that I wanted to become a special educator. I had spent several years visiting a special education classroom in our elementary school. I had been working with a young boy named Gunner on learning to tie his shoes. One day, while volunteering at our local Special Olympics, Gunner walked up to me with the “biggest smile that I have ever seen” and said, “Watch this.” He bent down and tied his shoe, all by himself, right there in front of me! To say that I felt a sense of overwhelming joy in that moment would be an understatement.
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Salter, M.S. (2015). Teaching with the Heart. In: Under the Bleachers. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-040-6_8
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