Today at MRDD

Today at work, the Montgomery County Board of MRDD, I felt pretty accomplished. First, I finished a brochure that I have been working on for a week, and it looks excellent! Next, I finished two 'major positive instance' stories about the people from Jergens and Calumet. Third and finally, I did something awesome.

In the MRDD system, there are many facilities that we cover. Some are early prevention schools and others are adult facilitiess. Today we got to visit a place called Northview School. This is a school for early childhood prevention. This school prepares preschool aged children to be ready and capable of entering kindergaten. My fellow intern and myself went to this school today in order to cover a story. Upon being there, I experienced some of the most adorable children I have ever seen. Some had visible disabilties while others did not. Every single child was as cute as the next.

A lot of the time, the stories I do are on the adult services programs, but this was different. I absolutely truly enjoyed visiting the school and the children.

MRDD is a great place to work. Day in and out, I discover something new about people with disabilities. I have learned that I really do enjoy working for government agencies. I have a much higher appreciation and respect for people with disabilities and all the amazing things that they can do.

Here is just a small list of what the people at these programs here can do:
1. Make all natural dog bones(in house)
2. Make candles that are comparable to the Yankee Candle company(also made all naturally)
3. Make holiday cards(there are amazing artists in this community)
4. Make birdhouses
5. Finally and most importantly, make parts for refridgerators that can be made no where else in the world. They put together the part that helps trigger the light to turn on.

Truly amazing.

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