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Show "aBiw 1 I Ml ; ',? .' ,., j lifaC, jh..! LJLj, Mj (l 7 FIVE COUNTY PROGRAM. Children in special education class at Southern Utah State College were provided recently re-cently with gym clothes by the Circle Cir-cle K Club on the Cedar City campus. A student in new clothing utilizes trampoline as club members, Evelyn Lyman, Arlene Sperry and Tom Walker Walk-er look on. Gym suits provided for students I I Nine children participating in the cooperative five-county program for the trainable mentally retarded in Cedar City have been outfitted In new gym clothes provided by the Circle KT Club at Southern South-ern Utah State College. As part of the recreation phase of training for the handicapped children, weekly sessions in gymnastics are conducted at Cedar City High School. When it came to the attention of the SUSC service group that some of the participants partic-ipants did not have appropriate appropri-ate clothing for these activities, activit-ies, they elected to donate shirts and shorts as one. of their current projects. Under the direction of Eve lyn Lyman, Escalante, the needs of the children were determined de-termined as to types of clothing cloth-ing and sizes. Each child now has a complete gym outfit for exercising on the trampoline, tumbling mats, and other gymnastic equipment. Tom Walker, full time instructor in-structor for all of the daytime day-time activities provided for the group, said that the young students have shown significant signifi-cant physical development through their recreational activities. act-ivities. The program also includes in-cludes a weekly swimming session in the SUSC pool. The TMR children have participated par-ticipated since last fall in a live-in situation which involves invol-ves 24 hour planned activities designed to assist them In achieving maximum development develop-ment . Monday through Friday Fri-day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. the youngsters attend school in a special room provided in the Cedar City Junior High School through cooperation of the Iron County School District. The group eats lunch in the school cafeteria and mingles min-gles freely with students in the Junior High. At the end of the school day, the special students are taken to their "home" in the former nurses quarters south of Zel-kova Zel-kova Hall, formerly the Iron County Hospital. Their foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ney, direct activities through the evening, prepare dinner for the group, and help them prepare for bed. In the morning, morn-ing, each child is assisted in dressing for school, taking care of domestic duties, and eating breakfast, also prepared prepar-ed by the Neys. Each of the children is given as much responsibility re-sponsibility as he can assume. Mr. Walker is assisted in directing class activities by Mrs. Alene Sperry, teacher's aid. Before moving to Cedar City last year she was an assistant as-sistant in the Granite Rehabilitation Rehab-ilitation Center in Salt Lake City. SUSC students in child psychology psy-chology and child development develop-ment courses help the children child-ren with crafts and learning activities. Instructional aids are provided through the cooperation co-operation of the Southwest Educational Ed-ucational Development Center Cen-ter under the direction of Cregg Ingram. SUSC coordinator is Prof. Vern Kupfer, chairman of the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences. He is assisted by Leslie Jones, instructor in psychology. |