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Fitness, Fun and Friends Community Connections Tracy Oxley [email protected] May 2, 2011 EEX-2010

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Fitness, Fun and FriendsCommunity Connections

Tracy Oxley

[email protected]

May 2, 2011

EEX-2010

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Opportunities to Serve:

UCP of Central Florida -

Bailes Campus through

Teachers in Action

Oviedo Little League

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UCP of Central

Florida• Located in Central Florida

Research Park

• Supporting children and

families for over 55 years

• 35,000 square foot facility

that practices full inclusion

in the classroom

• Provides education to 2,400

children

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Oviedo Little League • Organized baseball and

softball for children aged 4 –

19;

• Offers a Challenger division

for children with disabilities;

• Approximately 500

children, 60 with disabilities;

• Emphasizes teamwork and

fair play;

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I spent my 15 service hours at two locations – Teachers in

Action Fitness Field Day event and Oviedo Little League

Fitness Field day at UCP

– Assisted with set-up and clean

up;

– Served as a “cheerleader” for

participants;

– Supported UCP staff with

snacks and activities with

children;

– Interacted with students and

provided direction to events.

Oviedo Little League

• Attended several games

throughout the season;

• Worked one on one as a

buddy with a t-ball player;

• Served as a dugout volunteer

to keep game progressing;

• Encouraged children and

cheered them on

• Helped maintain safety rules.

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Demographics

UCP of Central Florida

• Serves children with cerebral

palsy, Down

syndrome, autism, speech

delays, developmental

delays, vision and hearing

impairments and typical students;

• Fitness Field Day had less than 30

participants;

• The children served on Fitness

Filed Day were between the ages of

4 – 10.

• Fitness Field day served both

children with disabilities and those

without.

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Demographics

Oviedo Little League

• The entire league serves all children

in the Oviedo area, including

children with Down

syndrome, physical

disabilities, autism and behavioral

disorders;

• The Challenger division has

approximately 60 children of

different races and disabilities;

• I worked with a 5 year old t-ball

player who is developmentally

delayed and lacks typical

communication skills;

• I assisted with a t-ball team that

had 8 typical children and one with

behavioral and developmental

delays;

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Service in Action

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Perceptions of Differences

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Connections to My Course

• EEX 2010 – Introduction to Special Education

– Special Education Services and Programs

• Related Services and Providers

– Physical or Health Disabilities

• Neuromotor Impairments

– Emotional or Behavioral Disorders

• Classroom Management

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Civic Engagement

The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to

matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it

make some difference that you have lived at

all. ~Leo Rosten

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Final Thoughts