Disability Awareness

Do one activity from each of the lists below.

1. Disability awareness, do one of these:
   • Explain what a disability is.
   • Find out about a Paralympian and their sport. Tell a story about their achievements.
   • Visit an activity centre or playground for people with disabilities.
   • Talk about how your meeting place could be made better so that everyone can take part.
   • Make a poster that tells others about a disability. Choose something that's not mentioned later, in numbers 2, 3 or 4
2. Physical disability awareness, do one of these:
   • Show how to safely push a wheelchair.
   • Talk about an aid that can help a disabled person. It could be a type of wheelchair, computer, grabber or rising chair.
   • lay a game where you can only sit down or use one hand. Goalball is one game you could try
3. Deaf awareness, do one of these:
   • Learn how to fingerspell your name.
   • Learn the Promise in British Sign Language.
   • Explain what hearing dogs for deaf people do. Why are they helpful?
   • Play a game without using sound
4. Sight awareness, do one of these:
   • Talk about what guide dogs for blind people do
   • Guide a blindfolded Beaver through a game or assault course.
   • Play blind football or another blindfolded game