Special Olympics Population Analysis Paper

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This paper is being written to identify and provide demographic information on a population that I am providing services while learning. The name of the organization I am working with over the spring break is identified as Special Olympics. Special Olympics has a lot of remarkable individuals, the only entity different about these individuals are their mental capacity or physical impairment; their learning performances are slightly lower than the average person. Can special needs individual obtain information and are they considered to be “normal”? These are questions that have crossed many people's mental, even if they never could acknowledge it. The contrasting question is: what is normal?

My description of this experience was that I would not like it because I did not know if I had anything to offer this society. This spring camp was put together last year and I did not grasp the concept
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The sample as selected randomly, with the convenience of the available individuals and it has to be purposeful to Special Olympics, the camp as a whole and the individual who will part take in the activities and engagement of the camp. These representatives were not through the entire population, just a portion of it. These were individuals who were asked about a spring break camp that they would attend while on spring break, to enjoy themselves and to learn about cultural awareness. (reference from PowerPoint)

Then, focusing on Quasi-Experimental Research, this is a form of research that allows gray areas. The requirements of the experiments are not fully met, and also hold limitations.

Handling a large group of 40 adolescences at one time would not give us the proper satisfaction or the longevity. However, it does allow us to explore their social interactions with each other, to explore their own personal experiences with others that are the same and in one way different. This quasi-experiment is known as

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