Obi-Wan Kenobi Changed My Life

One organization in particular that has large involvement within the community to help disabled kids is this organization called Miracle League of the Triangle. This organization is country-wide organization that is located in multiple parts of the country. In particular, one location is in Cary, North Carolina. This organization is specifically related to the sport of baseball. This league operates like a real baseball league where there are multiple teams and each team plays against each other. Each player has some sort of disability where it’s a physical disorder or a mental disorder. The good thing about the involvement is that each player is assisted by a person known as a BUDDY where they help the player run the bases and hit the ball. It’s a real bonding moment for both the player and the BUDDY. It shows that the BUDDY really cares for the player and it makes the player feel more appreciated. The mission statement for the league is to create positive life experiences for children and adults with special needs and for their families through baseball. The league also has some core values in which they take and consider in this organization. Some values are that everything that is done should be player-centered and create an accepting, safe, and fun environment. The world sometimes responds in a ways not to accept people with special needs because they think they don’t fit into the society so they simply exclude them from most activities or other involvements in the community. To change this issue, the leagues organizes the baseball games to give kids a chance to participate in the community even if the league is a specific minority group. It gets these kids more involved to have exposure of interesting things in the world. The league gives everyone the opportunity to participate which creates unity among each other. The BUDDY system helps the staff, board, coaches

This event happens once a year and takes place at our high school stadium. Special needs kids come from all around my community to compete in events that best suit their physical or intellectual disabilities. It is truly astounding to see a whole community come together to support these kids. At this past year's Olympics I volunteered as a peer buddy and my responsibilities included walking my buddy, Luke, to his different events and making sure he was having a good time. Luke won first place in the ball throw and second place in the 100 meter dash. I loved seeing how happy he was when he was handed his ribbons and I was so fortunate to have been able to spend the day with

As a special needs baseball instructor with Challenger Baseball, I worked closely with children who had mental or physical disabilities. An opportunity such as this challenged me to strengthen my emotional intelligence and recognize the importance of empathy. Halfway through the sessions, I noticed there was an autistic boy whom many of the other volunteers struggled working with as he was known to be recalcitrant and apprehensive. Impelled by his reluctance, I made the intuitive decision to work with the boy and made it my goal to ensure he was having fun. However, ten minutes into our first lesson, the student was hysterical and attempted to return to his mother. Judiciously, I identified key areas that would make him feel more comfortable

Mile autistic students can be skilled in many subjects and go to college and learn and living. I played with kids who couldn't talk. At the Morgan Center I play with the rise that put stickers on paper and all the kids will be playing with Play-Doh.It was a little challenging to work with the kids At the center because they couldn't talk. In the last day in the Morgan center we played musical

For three years, I have worked with Youth Challenge, an organization that helps children with physical or mental disabilities do activities that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to do at home or at school. When volunteering, I am assigned a buddy (as they call it), a different one each time, that has some mental or physical disability ranging from Down syndrome to cerebral palsy to visual impairment. As volunteers, we assist our buddy for the day and become friends with them.

Starting my freshman year I joined Project Unify and began volunteering at the Special Olympics, working with intellectually disabled students to promote love and friendship through sports while also connecting them to the community. As a part of Project Unify, I was able to assist in encouraging inclusion and acceptance of students with intellectual disabilities in my school and the local area. I became an advocate for students with intellectual disabilities, reaching out to my peers to illustrate that they are not different than us and that the only divide that exists between us and them is one we create. We had campaigns throughout the school such as “Spread the Word to End the Word” to stop the hurtful use of the r-word. I took part in

This year through National Honor Society I had the opportunity to participate in a study to better the social skills of autistic youth. Once a week I attended a photography class each week we alternate between taking pictures and editing them. The autistic students come an hour before we do and work on how to interact with people. Through the photography class we interacted with the participates and recorded video conversation over the twelve weeks of the class to establish how they are progressing. The students review their videos and get feedback on their conversational skills. Through this experience I have made many friends and have learned that I love to help people. I have thoroughly enjoyed helping these teenagers learn social skills

The ability to express your feelings seems effortless for teenagers with the existence of "tweeting", blogging, and updating a Facebook status, but for those with autism it is demanding. Loud noises, accidental touches and even an indifferent expression may send an autistic child into a nerve-wracking state. My best friend is autistic; however, I never saw him as different. I am always there for him whether it is on the sidelines for the Special Olympics or whenever he is having a bad day. I am his cheerleader, just as he is mine. I have always been inspired by him to make the world a better place. Seeing him compete in the Special Olympics with his peers inspires others who might not fit in to find a place. There is a home for everybody and little did I know I was about to find mine.

Some schools use parts of their funding to allow the disabled children enrolled in special education and EC programs to participate in a program called the Special Olympics. The Special Olympics website claims “Founded in 1971, Special Olympics North Carolina provides services and opportunities to more than 38,000 athletes, supported by nearly 5,000 volunteer coaches, and we host nearly 600 competitions annually (Special Olympics).” The Special Olympics are a set of sports, set up like the regular Olympics, that help create a friendly and equal competition to promote and raise awareness of disabilities in the United States (Special Olympics). Sources have proven that the Special Olympics are a fun, and enjoyable way for disabled children to

Everyone has their own set of strengths and weaknesses. Those with disabilities are no different they just have a different set then everyone else. I chose this project topic because in 5th and 6th grade I was part of a program called Peer Pals. Once a week during recess I volunteered in a special needs classroom. This work opened my eyes to the world of special needs and Peer Pals is one of the things I miss about elementary school. I realized that I needed to continue helping the special needs community. No solutions presented themselves and then one day the solution stared me in the face from it’s home in the Reston Community Center Program Guide. “Volunteer at the Adapted Aquatics Class,” I had found a solution to my problem.

The storm brewing in the crowd turned to thunderous applause when ice skaters twirled and leaped across the rink to land gracefully within only a few moments. The gold medalist goes from standing on a glorious pedestal to riding in the quiet backseat of a car. All she gets to listen to is silence- just because her intellectual disability makes her feel inadequate. The Special Olympics is not only about winning a race or declaring victory when passing the finish line- this charity is dedicated to raising awareness for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) who have been ignored their entire lives. There are as many as 4.5 million athletes in the Special Olympics worldwide, and Special Olympics plans to reach out to 200 million people by

I am very passionate about working with kids with autism. They have such amazing personalities and I feel like people don’t see past the disability to the unique person they are. For several years I worked at a residential facility for kids on the spectrum. I was a direct care staff that worked one on one with them to work on their goals their treatment plan was focusing on. My passion to help kids with autism comes from my previous experience working with these kids and watching them grow and learn new skills. This transformation that I watched happen and helped be a part of with these kids made me want to help more kids with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). There are a lot of skills that need to be taught to these children. Socialization, communication, and positive behavior are just a few kids with autism need help improving. I believe that the earlier that you teach a child these skills the more successful they will be. Early intervention has had a positive outcome within many research experiments that professionals have done. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (2004) also requires schools to teach kids with disabilities alongside typically developed kids as much as possible.

While in ninth and tenth grade, I constructed projects that deal with students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). In ninth grade, I focused on raising awareness about the social isolation that students with IDD are faced with in and out of school. This project was important to me because I was once in a special needs classroom and I remember the feeling of loneliness that I felt. I never want any student to go through that dilemma that I was faced with on a daily basis. However, I had a caring mother and grandmother that fought to provide me with the best education that was possible for me to obtain and I was able to mature out of those classrooms to the point where I was put in classes with the mainstream students. I want every student, no matter their standardized test scores or popularity, to know that they are important and that they are just as important as everyone else. We all can’t be smart like Albert Einstein or as beautiful as Marilyn Monroe, but we can be perfect at being ourselves and doing the best we can in order to make sure that we continue to better the world. Furthermore, the project that I worked on was titled, “IB Social” and it brought about the Best Buddies program to my school, which matched students with and without IDD in one-to-one friendships. Many students have enjoyed this program and a plethora of

In reviewing the required videos and reading on low incidence, there were a large range of how it affected individuals are processed by individuals without disabilities, these videos demonstrates what it is like to try to be normal with a disability. The first video called, Autistic Basketball Player,” presented an enlighten outcome, that people should not assume that individual with disability are not able to contribute to a job or sport. Jason Mcelwain’s a young man with Autism that id given to chase an individual with a disability self-worth is just as valuable as the rest of the team when it come to sport. The second video called, “Breaking Barriers of Autism: The power of Kindness and friendship present how individuals with disabilities are able to leap bounties id one person will acknowledge them. In his lecture he was able to present insight on how lonely it is on another side of the disability spectrum.

If I were to describe myself in a tweet, I would use my 140 characters to say “I'm ardent for the future of myself and others. I'm a creative, yet practical problem solver. I'm sociable and reliable. I am Isaac Beery.” I believe that this tweet not only provides a relatively comprehensive overview of my characters and goals, but also acts as an envelope for a much more detailed description of how I comprise of these traits. These characteristics are not who I am, it is simply an all encompassing depiction of the actions I have taken to bring out the person I aim to become.