SC - Non-member submission - RE: Special needs

[Rovena]

I am glad that this list can discuss thigs like this as it benefits everyone
about what reality is not what we thought it was.  I am learning a lot.

Thanks everyone.

Rovena


Michael Gunter wrote:

> >Most of the sites that we have available to us in
> >Gleann Abhann  are not handicap accessable. The
> >worst of these tend to be the state parks.
> >How can we be held responsible for the inaccessiaability
> >of State Property?  We were had to use only handicap
> >friendly sites most of us would not be able to hold
> >events.
>
> >Our shire birthday is held in a horse pasture.
> >The only toilets are portalets.
> >There is no way we could alter the accomodations.
>
> Speaking as a special needs person - check with the
> business you rent the plastic potties from, several
> sites I've been to lately have had handicapped potties.
> Great for people who don't need them, they're big
> enough to change clothes in if you have to.
>
> Also, the event I went to this weekend had plastic
> potties to augment the flush toilets on site.  My
> problem was needing to be near the feast hall, and the
> water pump went on the fritz, so the flush toilet
> didn't work until after noon on Saturday.  The only
> portapottie I could see was, well, a long way off,
> up the hill from the hall.
>
> Liadan
>
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