APA Reflective Journal

Journal Week 1

" Really not the disability that defines you; it's how you will deal with the challenges the disability gives you with. We have a duty to the skills we DO have, certainly not the disability" (Jim Abbott, nd). Cement experience

My spouse and i thoroughly liked today's school, it was not as challenging or while daunting ?nternet site had in the beginning expected but I think that had to do with the bond My spouse and i felt with Stephen. Stephen is a nonverbal 15 year old boy within a wheelchair who also also has osteoporosis. Initially when I was told Stephen was on his way and that he was non-verbal and a wheelchair I panicked slighty, much more of the idea of him not being able to talk rather than becoming limited in movement. I quickly learned that " At times we may recognise expertise, especially when really out of context, " and this is true in all aspects of life, not only in instructing. I had an array of sports aligned but I choose to stick to basketball and tennis today, mainly field hockey as I believed I was many confident teaching basketball to Stephen and I had good adaptive tools such as the floor hoop. Stephen absolutely loved the hockey and I honestly think I actually said well done/fantastic pass/shot 20 mil times! His face lighted up at any time he trapped or put the ball accurately or anytime he succeeded in scoring. My spouse and i genuinely did not expect to truly feel so confused with emotions teaching him, I really appreciated every minute from it and was very capable to teach him for the next four weeks. Although I didn't encounter any particular concrete event with Sophie precisely, the feel of joy and excitement on his face if he scored his first holder was the finest 10 secs of my day. Representation

As I have stated above, today was a amazing experinece, yet , it had not been as organised as I experience it could had been. It was a new experience for most of us and I truly feel we were chucked into the deep end with little prepartation in terms of medical knowledge. We should have already been matched on paper with our scholar and...