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VIP Club for Blind and Visually Impaired StudentsVIP Club is an after school Club activity for the middle school and high school Blind and Visually Impaired (VI) students. It has been sponsored, planned and held by volunteer Vision Resource Teachers at Lincoln Public Schools for last several school years. At the end of last year, fourteen students participated in this monthly club. The goal of this club is to promote higher self esteem and self confidence among the participating Blind and VI students through the group/team activity. At the club meeting, through the activities, the students can share and discuss ideas, experiences and issues that may not be shared when he/she is the only Blind or VI student in the mainstreamed class or in the school. High self esteem and self-confidence are the some of the most important aspects of a person’s character to be developed in his/her adolescent age. For Blind and VI students, those character traits are at risk, because the students constantly feel they are “different” from the rest of the classmates in the mainstreamed class. VIP club provides the students with opportunities to know that there are other students like him/herself facing the similar but unique “Blind and VI issues”, and to learn the strategies to better deal with them. In an actual VIP Club we usually plan educational/social activities with adaptations and support for the loss of vision when needed. The activities includes but not limited to: cooking, house keeping, shopping, craft making, job hunting, learning social manners in public, college life preparation, going to theaters and plays, and just plain social get togethers. Deadline: 9/13/2006 Discipline Area(s):
Grade Level(s) Impacted:
10.0% -- Students on Reduced or Free Lunch |
