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ERIC Number: EJ766509
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Jun
Pages: 2
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0046-9157
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You Never Know What You Can Do until You Try
Barzach, Amy Jaffe
Exceptional Parent, v37 n6 p46-47 Jun 2007
In this article, the author describes how she created a universally accessible playground where children of all disabilities can play together. She created this project as a way to channel her grief after her son, Jonathan, died of spinal muscular atrophy. This playground, built in the author's hometown of West Hartford, Connecticut, led to the creation of Boundless Playgrounds--now known as the first national nonprofit dedicated to opening the world of play to children of all abilities. Recently, Boundless Playgrounds had the opportunity to team up with PLAYSKOOL--a division of Hasbro, Inc.--to award one community a Boundless[trademark sign] playground worth up to $300,000 through the "PLAYSKOOL Win a Boundless[trademark sign] Playground Essay Contest." The goal of the contest was to raise awareness that playgrounds should not exclude children with disabilities. Third-grade teacher Scott Mickey and parent Lisa Popovich's jointly written essay was chosen as the best entry. Mickey and Popovich's essay was written on behalf of McCullough Elementary School and the Penn-Trafford School District in Claridge, Pennsylvania. This school has worked hard to provide an environment that is welcoming and inclusive for children of all abilities, and they dreamed that their playground could do that, too.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Connecticut; Pennsylvania
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