Going To Prom, Just Like Everyone Else
EGHS students with disabilities attended EG's prom Friday together with some students from EG and La Salle.
Things are changing in the way students with intellectual disabilities experience high school. Case in point – last Friday night, five such students attended the East Greenwich High School prom without their parents or other adults as chaperones. Instead, they went with high school dates, just like all the other students at the prom. The scene unfolded as it was in backyards all across East Greenwich Friday afternoon, with impossibly lovely young women in bright-colored dresses and impeccably dressed young men in black formal wear smiling for endless photos. It was the work of two students from East Greenwich – one from La Salle and one from EGHS – who were committed to the Best Buddies program and the newer Unified sports program. Best…
Asher Toboul
5:04 am on Wednesday, June 12, 2013
We recently had a booking for a similar group of students in our area, for our party limo amongst our party rental fleet. These group of students did volunteering activities at a school for students with intellectual disabilities, helping them with social activities. There they realized that these students have not gone to prom like normal kids – with no parent chaperoning them, etc. Since these … more ›