Last week, we continued with our group presentations and the topic was adaptive dining. The group did a fantastic presentation and made it hands on and very interesting! All of us were involved and had different roles so we really got the feel for different disabilities dealing with adaptive dining. We were split into table of about 5-6 people and we all had cards. On the cards was the dining process split up into different stages and for each stage we were assigned a different role: a person with a behavioral disorder, someone with cerebral palsy, someone with schizophrenia, a CTRS, someone who is blind and someone who is in a wheelchair. We were supposed to act out different scenarios to see what it's like to be on a dining experience with all the variety of disabilities. The group members were our waitresses and for the first half were very rude, which might be like what you would experience normally, and were very accomadating the second half.
I learned a lot about myself during the meal. I learned again patience is key; it was frustrating at points because there was so much going on and it was like a real experience and I had to handle it like I would if it was my job. Of course, you wouldn't necessarily take all those people out to dinner together but it was a good example. I stived to play the roles as well as I could. A lot of the scenarios were out of our element as far as what we were supposed to do. You could tell that people were laughing because it was embarassing and very uncomfortable at times, and something we might have never seen before. Overall it was a very enjoyable activity/class!
I'm looking forward to the adaptive golfing later today!
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