Who's The Slow Learner?
Sean McElwee has lived a rich extracurricular life. As a student, he played every sport offered, joined Cub Scouts, attended dances, and even dated a celebrity. Sean, who has Down syndrome, functions according to a combination of the aitas easier to gain forgiveness than permissiona principle and the Nike tag line, aJust Do It!a Whoas the Slow Learner? Adventures in Independence offers a series of poignant and often hilarious anecdotes about Sean and his parents as they support and facilitate Seanas life skills education at home through extracurricular activities. Follow along as he learns housekeeping skills and money management and moves on through his transition program and community college classes. Seanas antics will keep you smiling, while others may scare you as he exerts his independenceaat times without his parentsa knowledge or permission. Riding the bus, creative spending sprees, dating, moving into a supported living apartment and back home, and obtaining his first paid jobathese stories will both entertain and inspire. In this triumphant sequel to Whoas the Slow Learner? A Chronicle of Inclusion and Exclusion, we follow Seanas journey to independent adulthood as his parents give him more freedom and responsibility while learning what he is truly capable of achieving.The unmistakable odor of microwave popcorn being poppedaand I anticipated the next odor to be the unmistakable ... of the vent-mounted microwave, carefully avoiding the burners on the oven below, and removing a perfectly popped bag of anbsp;...
| Title | : | Who's The Slow Learner? |
| Author | : | Sandra Assimotos McElwee |
| Publisher | : | Outskirts Press - 2015-03-25 |
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