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Local Students
Learn to Empathize with Peers By Melissa Keeney Fort Myers - A local school is starting the new year off with a unique lesson. Students and teachers at Edison Park Elementary school participated in a workshop geared toward sensitivity awareness. Through hands-on activities, students learn what it's like to be blind, deaf, and have other physical and mental disabilities. Lisa Cronin- Miller founded the workshop three years ago. As a mother of an autistic child, she had frustrations over how others treated her daughter. Cronin- Miller says, "I think that giving them information to use will enable them to deal with them in the future, and with inclusion they're in their classroom. They are seeing them in the hallways so we are educating them and sharing with them who these peers are." More than five thousand students and teachers
have been trained through the program. If you would like more
information about the Sensitivity Awareness Workshop you can go
to www.sawoneheart.org or call 239-466-6344. SAW
of SWFL, Inc. is a Florida 501(c)3 Non Profit Corporation. All
gifts of cash or securities are fully tax deductible under IRS
law. A copy of the official registration and financial information
may be obtained from the division of consumer services by calling
toll free (800-435-7352) within the state. Registration does not
imply endorsement, approval or recommendation by the state. |
