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r Fun and Understanding
lized and they were told to walk an obstacle
course on crutches and carry objects from
one table to another.
They ran relay races with decidedly un-
even gaits due to a four-inch-thick block tied
to one shoe. They tried moving from a simu-
lated wheelchair to a simulated toilet with-
out using legs or feet, as a paraplegic must
do. To experience how many hearing-im-
paired people communicate, the Scouts tried
using sign language.
One of the most popular events called for
Scouts to write their names with a pencil
stub without using arms or hands. "I'd say
30 percent of the successful writers held the
pencil in their teeth and the rest used their
feet," Norman Goldberg said. "Either way,
they were pretty illegible, but the kids en-
joyed it."
Teeth got another workout when Scouts
tried to tie their shoelaces with one arm be-
hind their backs. "Some of them did it," said
Paul Hirsch, who planned and ran the cam-
poree program. "They were able to bring
their foot up to their mouth and succeeded
in tying their shoe. I know I sure couldn't do
it that way."
Hirsch is Scoutmaster of Troop 357, char-
tered to Local 3 of the Electrical Welfare
(Above, left) Matthew
Gibson of Troop 55
and camporee
organizer Paul Hirsch
discover that table
manners are greatly
hampered when you
can't see what you
are eating. (Above,
center) Scouts from
Troop 255 try to write
their names without
using their hands.
(Above, right) In a
game of one-on-one
blindfolded tag,
Joseph Zappe follows
a course by listening
for sound cues. (Right)
Using only one hand,
Troop 390 Scout
Marlin Morales tries to
tie one of the required
knots for Tenderfoot
rank.
Scouting r|t* March-April 1997
Club of the
International
Brotherhood
of Electrical
Workers. He
got the idea
for the Disa-
bility Aware-
ness Campo-
ree from his
wife, Lily. She
is a teacher's
assistant in a
school for pre-
schoolers with
physical and
emotional dis-
abilities.
Hirsch developed ideas for ways to simu-
late handicaps. He then spent months mak-
ing ramps and stairs for obstacles, and gog-
gle blindfolds and cuff crutches to simulate
physical challenges.
His work paid off. An hour after the pro-
gram's scheduled ending, Scouts were still
begging for one more try. ■
Robert Peterson is a contributing editor of
Scouting magazine.
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