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The Common
Playgrounds Program is a fun, fast-paced, disability sensitivity
education program for late elementary and middle school-aged children.
The Common
Playgrounds Program has three key components. First is the “What Do You
Know About People with Disabilities” game show/assembly.
Children engage in interactive skits about many topics including
accessible parking, service animal etiquette and person first language
and receive prizes. The
second aspect of the program is the Question/Answer Session.
Children get an opportunity to ask LVCIL Staff and Volunteers
questions that they would not normally be able to ask, such as questions
about living with a disability.
The third component of the program is a Poster/Essay Contest.
Children create posters and write essays about the information
they have learned and how they can make their neighborhoods more
inclusive for children and adults with disabilities.
LVCIL Staff then judges the posters/essays and awards the winning
group of students with a pizza party.
Goals of the Common Playgrounds Program include
reducing stereotypes about abilities of children and adults with
disabilities, increasing inclusiveness and communication between
children with and without disabilities, and encouraging children to
share their imaginations by developing unique and safe ways to include
children with disabilities in playing games and sports, participating in
recess and other recreational activities so that there is full access to
fun and friendship.
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