Disability And Disability Reflection Paper - 1153 Words

We have all taken classes that have taught us new things, but have any of them really impacted your whole life and change the way you view the world. That is the experience I felt after completing my FSP course, Ability and Disability: Deconstructing the Social and Cultural Gaze. As part of this semester, our class had the opportunity to spend time with an organization that involved people with disabilities. This was called our Community Engaged Learning (CEL). Our class, for our CEL, worked with the organization Arc Mercer, located in Trenton, NJ. Arc Mercer is a non-profit organization, and their goal is to service people with developmental disabilities with opportunities to choose and realize their goals. It is a safe community†¦show more content†¦I gained a new lense on disability, and gained new relationships. My interactions, and relationships that I gained from the students at Arc Mercer, were like none other I have had in my life. It was hard to speak or have a conversation with some of them, but one of my favorite conversations I had, that I will always remember, was with one of the students, name Maria. Maria wasn’t able to speak very well verbally, but was able to use sign language to communicate. Luckily for me I take sign language as my language and was able to have a conversation with her. She told me that she was fifty-five and that she had a son in the class too, named Michael, who was in his mid twenties. I talked to her only for about ten minutes talking about her life, her friends and family. That short ten minutes was an amazing experience. Because of my knowledge in sign language I was able to have a conversation with her that not many people even working there could have done. I could tell that she was happy being able to talk to someone through her language , and it made me happy as well. 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