From You Can't to You Can: Service Learning for Students with Disabilities [Video]

This VHS video contains two programs: First is a short movie presentation that is designed to inspire support for service learning projects that use an inclusion model, in which special education students and regular education students work side-by-side. It is the true story of a high school student with significant disabilities who participates fully in a water quality testing project. The video shows how it feels to him to do meaningful service for his community, why his family and teachers are so impressed with the project's results, and how other students' previous aversion toward him and his disability has disappeared. The second program is an instructional video for teachers wanting to set up inclusive service learning projects. It walks you through the basic steps involved in service learning: Preparation, Action, Reflection, Recognition--with extra attention to the elements needed in an inclusive model. These include careful integration into the curriculum, connection to IEP goals, making accommodations, and alternative reflection methods.