School Staff Raise Own Awareness About Disabilities

When the Cromwell Center provided disabilities awareness training for ed techs and cafeteria staff from five elementary schools, they posed questions about interactions with students with disabilities. And guess who provided the answers? Other cafeteria staff! This is how the Cromwell Method works. The staff had a wealth of personal experience and knowledge to draw from, and the program builds on these insights to change attitudes.

Disabilities Training Provided to School Employees

We are excited about disabilities awareness training we've begun in a large public school district. When the superintendent's office jumped at the opportunity to have the Cromwell Center return to their elementary schools, we arranged multiple sessions to offer training to their teachers, ed techs, cafeteria and custodial staff, and bus drivers. (We've already scheduled 21 sessions with their 3rd-5th graders making this our seventh year in the district.) More than two dozen ed techs and cafeteria staff from five schools participated in the experiential exercises and discussions designed to examine and change attitudes about people with disabilities.