Do you think a disabled person would be qualified to take care of others?
Posted: June 3rd, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Camping | Tags: care, disabled, others, person, qualified, take, think, would | 11 Comments »I worked at two summer enrichment programs between 2005 and 2006, and one was exclusively for disabled children. And I got these jobs through (temporary summer jobs) a youth employment agency and the weird thing is, these camps were usually composed of disabled children between ages 0-15 and from low income families. But the really weird thing was a lot of the people who got these jobs at these sort of day care places were young, from poor families (14-22), and a few with special needs. A couple of them were severe to the point where they were given non-daycare jobs.
So may question is, what was the point of those summer work experiences of basically putting similar people together but one group was supposed to the caretakers of possibly some people their age? It was weird, I did quit that youth program due to my age and not being able to find suitable work for myself.
Thank you all for the answers so far. But I tend to disagree, working at the disabled camp in particular was very stressful for me and felt like a slap in the face because I grew up on the generation that still had issues with disabled people and viewed them in a bad light. One of the reasons I didn’t return and I went to the “normal” camp the next summer.
And on another note, I just find it odd for a 15-16 year old to be working at a camp where her peers go. To me, you’d think the students would need someone older and not exactly in the same situation, like someone to look up to or aspire to.