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­­Easter Seals Organization Gabrielle Glenn I want to work on this project because I would like know more about children with special needs and how they adapt to the world around them. This is because I want to be a special needs teacher so therefore I want to know a basic background about the subject in which I want to spend the rest of my life doing. The main driving question for this project is how do Easter Seals schools help the special needs children who attend them. Another driving question is what is the background of the Easter Seals Organization and what special needs do they help out. This project will make a difference in my life because I will get to see how the families and children with disabilities are able to work with an outside organization to get along better with other people. It will help people around me because it will raise awareness about the different disabilities that are out in the world that are often overlooked. By volunteering at an Easter Seals school, I will better be able to answer the driving question of how the Easter Seal schools help children with special needs, because I will be experiencing the school first hand, and therefore I will be able to understand what the schools do to help the development of children with special needs. The final product would be a report based on what I learned from my first hand experience at the Easter Seals school. o Raise awareness about different disabilities that can affect the lives of many children o Learn about the nature of different learning disabilities which would therefore give me knowledge that I would need in the future o Understand the use of special schools, such as Easter Seals schools, and know why they are effective as they are o Understand the strain that having a child with disabilities puts on a family and how the entire family must change their way of life to accommodate the disabled child o Gain a better understanding of how children with special needs learn and how they need teachers to teach them so therefore they can better their advancement in the world In order to show that I have met my goals, I will put all of my volunteering down in a journal and how I felt after each day of volunteering. I can also document it with pictures of the children and their families. The presentation will highlight the Easter Seals school with the pictures I have taken and the final paper will have quotes and my personal feelings from my volunteering experience. In order to complete my project successfully, I will need more information on the Easter Seals Organization so therefore I can learn the advantages and disadvantages of attending an Easter Seals school as opposed to a normal school. Another resource that I will use to my advantage is my Uncle Aris who is a chairperson of the Easter Seals Organization, New York Chapter. By the end of Thanksgiving Break my project portion should be completed so then I can finish the paper with personal experiences. This will help me in the end because at the school they will have more information about what they do to help children and families with children who have disabilities. Another thing that I can get at the schools is information about where their funding comes from and how the donators help make the organization possible. By the start of Winter Break, my presentation should be completed so therefore all I have to do is prepare what I am going to say when I present to the class. If I have the presentation done before Winter Break, I can use the break to look over the project so then I will have the best project possible because if I look over the presentation and see that something is missing I can add it and not be rushed or pressed for time right before the project is due. My mentor is my mother, Barbara Glenn, and she is a former school teacher and now she is retired and is a stay at home mom. I choose her for my mentor because she always knows when I am down or stressed and she knows how to help me when I am stressed. She is also aware that I might work myself too hard, so therefore she will help me spread the work out so I am not waiting until last minute to complete the entire project. My mentor, Aris Pavlidas, is a chairperson to the Easter Seals organization in New York City and has the vast knowledge that is needed when it comes to the subject of Easter Seals schools. He will be able to get me to see the inside look at the Easter Seals schools so that I can better understand how the schools work. I chose him as my mentor due to his knowledge of the subject matter and because he will help me in any way that he can when it comes to my research. For me this project is important because there are many children with special needs who are overlooked when it comes to their importance in the world, and I believe that they need to be recognized as people too. The strengths that I am using to help me with this project are my organization and planning skills, because is I have everything planned out and organized then I can continue the project on and finish it within the allotted timeline. One weakness that needs to be addressed for me is waiting until the last minute to finish a portion of the project before the deadline. Another weakness that I need to work on is writing skills, because I think that I need to focus when writing and therefore I need to have the discipline to reread and reread my paper so that way there are no little mistakes that can cause me major point.
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