LWSRA recognizes the importance of understanding and accepting people with disabilities. Through education, training and hands-on experience, we hope to extend this knowledge to everyone. Assemblies, training and "take-over" days allow LWSRA to reach out to youth, teens and adults in the community in order to build a better understanding and acceptance of those with physical or developmental disabilities.
If you feel your group or organization would benefit from this, please contact us today at (815) 464-2811.
School Assemblies
Target Audience: All students and faculty. Length: 1-2 Hours Interaction: Limited interaction with lecture followed by a limited amount of students and/or teachers becoming actively involved in demonstrations (ex: select students have an opportunity to play wheelchair basketball in front of the crowd). Rate: $350.00 (Please contact Keith Wallace with questions about rates)
P.E. "Take-over"
Target Audience: Students (Typically target one grade or a mix of gym classes) Length: All day event during each gym period Interaction: High Interaction level that consists of each gym period learning about various adapted sports and actively participating in each one. Students learn the limitations and freedoms athletes are able to experience while competing. Sports include wheelchair basketball (low level impairments), sit volleyball, and goalball (visually impaired). Students will use sport chairs and other equipment to experience the sport the way someone with a disability might experience it. Each period ends with a short question & answer session. Rate: $350.00 (P.E. Take-over days have traditionally been followed by a large culminating event, such as a wheelchair basketball game at night with the LWSRA Rolling Falcons vs. students/faculty. Fans and students are charged a small admission fee with proceeds then being donated to LWSRA. If a school decides to host one of these events, LWSRA will waive the fee for the P.E. Take-over day. Please contact Keith Wallace with questions about this option.) *Notes: The most effective way to utilize this program is to target a specific grade each year (ex: take-over all 7th grade or junior gym classes and repeat with the new 7th graders or juniors each following year.) We can also accomodate a mix of gym classes in the first year to reach the most individuals.
Target Audience: Small groups (students, staff, etc.) Length: 30 minutes to an hour Interaction: Limited hand-on participation with group Q&A session. (Short presentation is delivered to a small group of individuals to highlight what it is like to live with a disability as well as address common misconceptions of people with disabilities and how to interact with those who have a disability.)
LWSRA Disability Awareness Events: Feb. 13, 2012 - P.E. Take Over – Shepherd Middle School - Ottawa, IL Feb. 17, 2012 - Wheelchair Basketball Game – Shepherd Middle School - Ottawa, IL Mar. 7, 2012 - P.E. Take Over - Lincoln-Way West High School - New Lenox, IL Mar. 14, 2012 - P.E. Take Over - Lincoln-Way Central High School - New Lenox, IL Mar. 21, 2012 - P.E. Take Over - Lincoln-Way North High School - Frankfort, IL Mar. 26, 2012 - P.E. Take Over - Lincoln-Way East High School - Frankfort, IL Mar. 27, 2012 - P.E. Take Over - Johnston Elementary School - Highland, IN Mar. 29, 2012 - Wheelchair Basketball Game - Lincoln-Way East High School - Frankfort, IL
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