TRY, TRY AGAIN:Woman with Down Syndrome teaches crochet lesson to home economics students.
With only a hanger, a ball of yarn and a smile, Grace Nelson of Ten Sleep taught lessons in compassion, patience, understanding — and crocheting at Worland Middle School.Grace, a client at Big Horn Enterprises who has Down Syndrome, visited Jeana Croft's seventh grade home economics class last week to teach the students how to make yarn-coated wire hangers. But the real lessons, according to Jeannie Ferriss, BHE day hab supervisor, were the lessons the students learned about people who are disabled.
"This gives the kids a chance to see people with disabilities as humans," Ferriss said, "to know them not for what they can't do, but for what they can do."
When students found the intricate steps — looping a strand of yarn around their right hand, passing the yarn ball around the hanger and through the loop in one direction, then switching hands holding the yarn strands and doing the process in reverse — a bit challenging, Croft told them to take a lesson from Grace, BE PATIENT AND TRY AGAIN.
"People with disabilities never give up," Ferriss said, adding that sometimes because of their disability, the person may need to find a DIFFERENT WAY TO ACCOMPLISH A TASK, but they work until they find it. |