Initial+Proposal

Since I was young, I have always wanted to be a teacher, but it was not until recently that I realized that I wanted to specialize with special needs children. With this project I would like to enhance my knowledge of different special education problems, and how different organization, such as Easter Seals, help both families and children living with disabilities. As the project portion of my project I would like to volunteer at an Easter Seals school and also help my uncle, who is the chairman of the board of Easter Seals in New York. This then leads to the driving question of How does the Easter Seals Organization help so many children with disabilities?

As possible research areas for this project I can focus on what disabilities Easter Seals deal with and go in depth with the specifics of those disabilities. Also, I can go into detail on what Easter Seals does to help people living with special needs. I can also focus on how different organizations help children and families with children who struggle with disabilities. As an overview source for the entire project, I would most likely use the Easter Seals organization website for basic and background information. When it comes to research I can look at the different disabilities.

When it comes to the project portion of this project, I believe that it will take several hours of volunteering. I can work with the children in the New York schools as well as the Easter Seals schools in Philadelphia. With the volunteer work I believe that I will better understand how children with disabilities get through life and how they become more adapt to the real world. As potential problems with this I can see me not being able to volunteer at the schools and then to compensate with this I would just do a fundraiser to raise money to help out the different schools.

I hope to have my mentor help me stay on track with all of the volunteer work. I think that my mom, who is my mentor, will help me stay focused because she knows that I will wait until the last minute. When it comes to my topic expert, I will be able to ask him how the organization helps families and what type of fundraisers they do in order to help support the families of the disabled.