Classmate Resources:
- I added two of David Lybbert resources that I felt was inspiring. The first one is an website that talk about accessible art is great for all ages. It provide tools to allow options to any person with work with, mental illness, disability, and just about anyone. https://www.mainlineart.org/accessible-art/ The Second resource is a video that shares of different amazing artist who has disabilities and how important it is for programs to make art accessible for everyone. https://youtu.be/89SsP3M-ITc
- I added two resources from Rachel's Toolbox. One of them I may have already added last week, but it is helpful and I felt it will be a good thing to add.https://arttherapy.org Another one of them is a video of about Artistic Wheelchairs. https://youtu.be/XC4fccd7DXs
- My other classmate Tiffany Packard added this video. It is about an artist who doesn't have limbs, and yet that doesn't stop her from creating art and helping others. It is called, Elsha Stockseth; Making the Impossible Possible. https://youtu.be/nnppqw0kNpg https://youtu.be/OPWLSb3dsTQ
- The last resource I will add is from Jessica. This website shares how to make art accessible for all in your programs. http://artshoptherapy.com/blog/topics/teaching-art/
- There are so many more I would love to add, so many good resources, but if I add then all, this is going to be a really long blog. Next step, this I found enlightening from this week lesson.
This Week Lesson Enlightenment:
- For this week Application assignment, we were suppose to do a sport with a disability. This is a link to my document and the things I learned from it. https://1drv.ms/w/s!Ano_1vcorOeMqlIzzW-a_u3pVP_E
- A website that raise awareness to those with limb lost.https://www.extremitygames.com/index.php
- The link tells the history and other neat facts about Special Olympics SpecialOlympics.org Also with that, in our personal training, they said about the history about Special Olympics and how it came to be, and I thought that would be neat to add to this blog. (Next Bullet point)
It all began in the 1950s and early 1960s, when Eunice Kennedy Shrive saw how unjustly and unfairly people with intellectual disabilities were treated. She also saw that many children with intellectual disabilities didn’t even have a place to play. She decided to take action.Soon, her vision began to take shape, as she held a summer day camp for young people with intellectual disabilities in her own backyard. The goal was to learn what these children could do in sports and other activities, and not dwell on what they could not do.Throughout the 1960s, Eunice Kennedy Shriver continued her pioneering work; both as the driving force behind President John F. Kennedy’s White House panel on people with intellectual disabilities and as the director of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation. Her vision and drive for justice eventually grew into the Special Olympics movement. July 19-20 1968 the first International Special Olympics Summer Games were held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois, USA. A thousand people with intellectual disabilities from 26 US states and Canada compete in track and field and swimming.
- This website is a link to the history of the movement when the Paralympic Games begin. https://www.paralympic.org/the-ipc/history-of-the-movement. And this is the "Disability Category Definitions for Paralympic Games" (down below).
- Amputee: Athletes with a partial or total loss of at least one limb.
- Cerebral Palsy: Athletes with non-progressive brain damage, for example cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, stroke or similar disabilities affecting muscle control, balance or coordination.
- Intellectual Disability: Athletes with a significant impairment in intellectual functioning and associated limitations in adaptive behavior (currently suspended.)
- Wheelchair: Athletes with spinal cord injuries and other disabilities which require them to compete in a wheelchair.
- Visually Impaired: Athletes with vision impairment ranging from partial vision, sufficient to be judged legally blind, to total blindness.
- Athletes with a physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other five categories, such as dwarfism, multiple sclerosis or congenital deformities of the limbs such as that caused by thalidomide.
- Ok, the last thing is an video that we were supposed to watch called, "Don't say that I can't." https://youtu.be/oLdi0hMkinM
- I was wondering if there was nerf guns that were made for those who didn't have limbs. There was. You can find that on this website. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nz7mqz/bionic-nerf-gun-prosthetic-lets-you-fire-darts-from-muscle-contractions
- I found a few different videos of people with disability who are almost like superheros of how they move and the spots they can do. The first one is called, "YES I CAN - Paralympics RIO 2016 - We're The Superhumans!" please watch this, this is inspiring. https://youtu.be/vzjuQoNM534
- The next one is a bit more insight about USA Adapted sports and experiences they gain and their personal experiences. It called, "Change the way you think about disabilities forever! Adaptive sports at Disabled Sports USA"https://youtu.be/tjZQwoR2Bkg
- This last one shows people with and without disabilities completing with each other. https://youtu.be/a6krLeYduBY
Conclusion:
Let's stop limiting people with disabilities and bring them into our programs, activities, and stop telling them that they can't because THEY CAN! Believe in them. Help train them just as you would anyone else. Yes, it might be more challenging to train.. but isn't the whole thing about sports is to challenges the participants who is a part of the sports? So.. shouldn't you as a leader.. challenge yourself in helping a person with any disability to achieve the impossible? It doesn't matter what program it is, what activity it is, let yourselves be challenge and grow by helping others be challenged and grow.
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