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St. John’s category gets hands unwashed training gardening skills from Autism Society

  • April 02, 2017
  • Health Care

A organisation of Grade 1 students spent an afternoon training something they don’t routinely get taught in propagandize by people who don’t routinely learn them.  

The Autism Society of Newfoundland and Labrador brought dual participants from a Transitions program into a classroom.

“We motionless to take a skills on a highway and teach little kids about planting seeds,” Transitions module co-ordinator Megan Marshall said. 

Megan Marshall

The Autism Society’s Megan Marshall co-ordinates a Transitions practice program. (Jeremy Eaton/CBC)

Colin Martin and Micah Maddalena normally assistance Marshall garden on about 10 acres of land nearby a society’s centre.

The dual are partial of Transitions’ practice program.

“They have been in programming with me given a fall,” Marshall said.

“It’s a one-year-long practice module and flattering shortly they will get hired as part-time drift staff during a centre and do a tillage and gardening with me.”

On Monday they brought their skills into Bishop Feild, teaching Ms. Howard’s Grade 1 category about gardening and assisting students plant immature and yellow beans. 

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“Anything that bridges my participants to a village and gives a new face to autism is a agenda,” Marshall said.

“Being means to share gardening information is something that we like too, so we’d like to do some-more of it.”

Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/grade-ones-get-hands-dirty-with-the-autism-society-1.4044689?cmp=rss

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