Hi Kathy-

I can't do everything an able bodied volenteer can do but I can do some
things they can't do.

For instance I am very good at conecting with the disabled who are
non-verble.  I just some how understand.

Also I am able to translate for people who have severe speech problems...I
find that I have been aournd these speech problems so much that I can
understand more than usual the first time someone says something...not that I
am 100% at this all the time.

When I worked with the severly handicapped I usualy did stuff like (try) to
keep autisim kids on task in vocational training, I also have fed my share of
mobility and mentaly impared kids...helped them in adaptive p.e. classes
(like helo them push a ball down a boweing ramp)...read stories to them...a
variety of diffrent things.  Many of the things I did sitting or laying on
the mats with the...I have even sat on mats with a 14 y.o. in my lap.  I
volenteered half days 3 times a week as I have problems with staminia.
There are many things that I can with out even having to stand up when it
comes to the job I did with the kids I worked with.

When I voleneer with the Greyhound rescue group I usualy take my wheelchair
and sit in it and hold 2 or 3 dogs on leashes.  Greyhounds are relitevly easy
to handel and so far I havn;t met one that has had a problem with the
wheelchair...in fact most of the time I will have one wanting on my lap (I
oftent have heads on my lap...they are so cute).  Peopel come up to me and
ask me questions about greyhounds and about are orginization and I answer
them.  So there is not that much required in that volenteer job that is
affected by my cerebral palsy.  The job only requires 3 to 4 hours per
weekend so stamina is not an issue like it is for me sometimes.

So basicly I work were and when my disability is not going to be a big
influence on what I do.

Talk to you soon,

Anee
webmaster of CPIC
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