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.