Instead, it is to raise awareness. People with disabilities don't want you to sympathize with them. If we can get the participants to feel and understand this then we have accomplished our goal at the dinner. Before entering the banquet room, participants were assigned a disability where they were either blindfolded, placed in a wheelchair, assigned a speech impediment or had all their fingers taped together to limit their dexterity. Casebolt said initially participants think the disability is trivial until they are required to get their meal in the buffet line.
First people think it is fun.
Casebolt said the intense conversation began to die down as participants prepared to undergo the task of eating their dinner. Susan Adams, associate vice chancellor and dean of Campus Life, said it was a coincidence that she was assigned cerebral palsy since arthritis, which limits the use of your hands, runs in her family. This feels very awkward. Bob Bolen, senior advisor to the chancellor, said he believed his simulated disability of cerebral palsy was not as difficult to adjust to as the other simulated disabilities. You have to be careful and slow down during the meal.