Day 5 (November 4)
Today we went to an ability center program and learned a lot. To tell you the truth, it really opened my mind to disabled people and made me respect them a lot more. I mean, it’s not like I thought about them in a bad way, but i used to not pay any attention to them. Now I treat them like I would treat anybody else. I was also taught some rules or commandments that you should use in speaking to a disabled person, no matter what their condition is. What we did in the ability center was try to experience various disabilities with things such as blindfolds or wheelchairs. I was given a hearing impairment as my disability. It actually bothered me a lot and helped me realize how bad that would be to live with everyday. I could hardly hear anything which made me unable to process information easily. In the middle of a speech or conversation, I would sometimes blank out and not realize what we were talking about. There are so many distractions when you are that bad at hearing. This experience opened up my eyes to the disabled and made me feel like I need to do something about it. I can form this day into a very good service learning project. I mean, the disabled can be linked to many studies in all of my academics. Then I would clearly understand the situation, do some community services to help it, and do something to raise awareness. I feel like this is a pretty big issue and people should not just be skipping over disabled people or thinking of them as aliens or non human. By completing a service learning project over this topic, I could end up getting large communities to join together and make a difference.
Today we went to an ability center program and learned a lot. To tell you the truth, it really opened my mind to disabled people and made me respect them a lot more. I mean, it’s not like I thought about them in a bad way, but i used to not pay any attention to them. Now I treat them like I would treat anybody else. I was also taught some rules or commandments that you should use in speaking to a disabled person, no matter what their condition is. What we did in the ability center was try to experience various disabilities with things such as blindfolds or wheelchairs. I was given a hearing impairment as my disability. It actually bothered me a lot and helped me realize how bad that would be to live with everyday. I could hardly hear anything which made me unable to process information easily. In the middle of a speech or conversation, I would sometimes blank out and not realize what we were talking about. There are so many distractions when you are that bad at hearing. This experience opened up my eyes to the disabled and made me feel like I need to do something about it. I can form this day into a very good service learning project. I mean, the disabled can be linked to many studies in all of my academics. Then I would clearly understand the situation, do some community services to help it, and do something to raise awareness. I feel like this is a pretty big issue and people should not just be skipping over disabled people or thinking of them as aliens or non human. By completing a service learning project over this topic, I could end up getting large communities to join together and make a difference.
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