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The tour began at Gossler Park Elementary School, where Amanda Bouchard of Northeast Passage led a Similarity Awareness program with a fourth-grade class, allowing students to explore the similarities all people share regardless of ability through a game involving wheelchairs.

The students were enthusiastic participants and were joined for a portion of the game by several members of the 易胜博官网 leadership team, including President Dean, Provost Jones and Dean Decelle.

Northeast Passage is a service branch of 易胜博官网鈥檚 College of Health and Human Services (CHHS) that provides adaptive sports and recreation programs and recreational therapy services to the community.

鈥淭he students had a blast. And they got to talk about and see, 鈥楥ould we play together if I was in a chair and you were on your feet?鈥欌�� Gossler Park Principal Lori Upham says. 鈥淭hey got the message that there are always differences 鈥� sometimes it鈥檚 language, sometimes it鈥檚 behavior, sometimes it鈥檚 skin color, and sometimes it鈥檚 just being able-bodied vs. someone who may have a disability. They became aware that those differences are just something we all have, but we all have so many more things that are similar that bring us together.鈥�