[Oabs] Jamaica study abroad.
Elif Emir
filerime at gmail.com
Sun Oct 26 14:47:43 UTC 2014
congrads and good luck
2014-10-25 16:09 GMT-04:00, Kaiti Shelton via Oabs <oabs at nfbnet.org>:
> Hi all,
>
> Some of you have asked me to keep you informed of my application to a
> study abroad/service music therapy program in Jamaica. I just had a
> follow up interview with the director, and have been accepted to the
> trip I was hoping to get. I will spend ten days in June providing
> Music Enrichment to children with disabilities in schools, patients in
> an infirmary, and residents of a homeless shelter. I'll also get to
> learn a lot of the traditional Afro-Cuban and West Indies drumming
> techniques, live in a treehouse, and get to explore the island. I'm
> very excited!
>
> The follow up interview was interesting. My professor gave me a
> glowing recommendation, however noted that she has not seen my
> mobility in unfamiliar places. This is fair, as she has only seen me
> in familiar settings. The director wanted to see how comfortable I
> would be with navigating rocky terrain, getting from point A to B by
> myself, etc. Apparently a blind student from another university
> applied last year, but their professor indicated that mobility would
> be an issue so the student was not accepted to the program. I'm glad
> that I've had the training in orientation and mobility, as well as
> independence skills that will allow me to participate in this
> experience. When I mentioned that I was a counselor at an Orientation
> and Mobility camp this past summer, that also helped to set the
> director at ease.
>
> I'm so thankful that I've tried to be as independent as possible, and
> that I have the opportunity to do this. In addition to being a great
> experience for my future music therapy career, it will also be an
> exercise in helping me to become even more independent in a setting
> that is very different from the ones I usually travel in. Music
> therapists have to advocate for the profession all the time. This
> will not only help me become a better advocate for music therapy, but
> also advocate for blind and otherwise disabled music therapy
> practicioners by demonstrating that with some simple modification, we
> can perform tasks just as successfully.
>
> --
> Kaiti Shelton
> University of Dayton 2016.
> Music Therapy, Psychology, Philosophy
> President, Ohio Association of Blind Students
> Sigma Alpha Iota-Delta Sigma
>
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