Show lI i J p I 1 F r 7 F Fi 4 I 3 f p ra PUPPETS PORTRAYING handicaps will well help others understand tand different disabilities at Handicap Awareness evening Nov 9 Puppets to help everyone everyone understand disabilities The Kids Kids on the Block are a group of incredible puppets some handicapped and some not which h help adults and kids alike to understand different disabilities and what its it's like to have them The puppets from Crom Salt Lake City will willbe willbe be part of a handicapped awareness evening being planned by parents and of of oC Uintah County Preschool Services The evening titled tilled II IIA A A Walk in Another Pair of oC Shoes promises to be one of the most entertaining and educational events of the year The public is invited to attend this event scheduled to be held Nov 9 at pm in the Uintah High School gym Educational booths will feature simulated handicapping conditions in an effort to help us understand hand first the difficulties encountered by disabled persons Participants will be fitted with witha a variety of devices in the simulated ex ex- ex experience When we become frustrated enough we can always remove the ear earphones earphones phones the eye patches or get out of the wheelchair and push It over the curb But the disabled person doesn't have these options stated Gayle Drollinger tor of the early Intervention program Uintah County Preschool Service Is Isnow Isnow now in its ninth year of oC operation Children between the ages of birth and five years who are found to be eligible for service receive intervention services including physical therapy speech therapy and developmental stimulation while their parents receive training on how to train their developmentally disabled child at home Mrs Lee England one of the parents on the committee for Cor the Nov 9 event has a 14 month old daughter with cerebral palsy p When we discovered Martinas Martina's problem the doctors never gave us much hope that she would ever walk reported Mrs England Im agine what a surprise It was for our pediatrician to have Martina toddle Into the examining room during our last check up I He was so pleased with the in in- in intervention service she has received from the preschool she added |