Students Get to Know Adults with Special Needs
This month, students from St. Francis Xavier School in LaGrange, IL took part in a school-wide focus on being of service to others. While each grade focused on a different area of need including visiting retirees, illiteracy, hunger, and respect for animals, the sixth graders spent a day bowling with adults with special needs. Together, the children and adults celebrated spares and laughed through gutter balls. The interaction between the two groups proved to have the outcome that Anne Cosentino, coordinator of SEASPAR (South East Association for Special Parks and Recreation) had hoped for. She wants to help people overcome … Continue reading