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IDEAS & SUGGESTIONS FOR H.A.W.
  1. Place an announcement regarding Handicapped Awareness Week (HAW) in the school bulletin that is read aloud over the public address system
  2. Place materials on bulletin board in highly visible areas.
  3. Go to all the classrooms and teach the students to sign, for example, peanut butter cookies.  Pass out cookies to all classes with a copy of sign language symbols.
  4. Hold an Awareness Week Reception for all staff.  Feature a handicapped person in the daily bulletin.
  5. Hold mini-workshops on program modification for classroom teachers.  Workshops can be given by the Disabled student’s Service.
  6. Make H.A.W. badges and distribute to staff.  Distribute posters in the community. Have books about disabilities available for loan.  Obtain appropriate films from public libraries.
  7. Students are sent outside the classrooms and asked to pretend to have a disability and have them shadow a person with the same disability.  A panel discussion may follow.
  8. Activity - Poster Contest
  9. Provide an overview of different majors that teach people to work with people with disabilities.
  10. Offer coffee and cookies compliments of the Special Education Department.
  11. Include daily bulletin notices of famous people with disabilities or some other inspirational message pertaining to H.A.W.
  12. Place posters made by special education students around campus promotion H.A.W.
  13. Make and distribute desk favors to administrators, secretaries, teachers, etc., using the H.A.W. theme.
  14. Make H.A.W. lesson plans available for easy distribution to teachers.
  15. Provide variety of hands-on materials for role playing activities: crutches, casts, braces, glasses, wheelchairs, etc.
  16. Set up a wheelchair obstacle course that staff and students can participate in.