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January 10, 2024Students Learn Empathy and Understanding Through Lab at Capital Region BOCES
Knowing what it is like to live–and go about one’s days– with a disability is a key aspect of effectively caring for and treating people with disabilities.
Students in the Capital Region BOCES Two-Year Sequence of Health Careers program recently took part in a lab with stations meant to depict specific disabilities. The goal was to provide the scholars with a better understanding of what it is like to have orthopedic impairments, visual impairments, autism, specific learning disabilities, and speech and language impairments.
“Disability awareness lays the foundation for an empathetic world. The students in this lab learned what it’s like to have visual, audiology and tactile disorders through actions like trying to open containers with oven mitts on.” said Laurie Itskov.
There are about 100 students in the Two-Year Sequence of Health Careers program during the 2023-24 school year. The program prepares students to enter the healthcare industry at the level of their choice.
Students have the option of taking a one-year program to earn certification as a Home Health Aide (HHA) and Personal Care Aide (PCA) or a separate one-year program to earn certification as a Nurse Assistant (NA) and PCA. Or students can take both courses during their junior and senior years.
