How To Write An Essay About My Service Learning Experience

Unlike other students in my class, the place where I did my service learning was a little bit different. What made it so different was that there was a lot more, at least I felt, elderly people as opposed to people with disabilities. Sure they may have been a few that if you went there you could maybe tell that they were disabled but honestly, after putting in so many years of visiting nursing homes with multiple groups, I couldn’t even tell if the younger people there were there for the program, or just hanging out with the elderly. As a side comment this could have been because one of the groups that I went with just happened to be a group of people with mental challenges, so that could have added to the confusion. Anyway, as I have said because of my past experiences I can’t really tell what’s what sometimes. But that isn 't what I am here to “talk” to you about today. No today I want to talk about a few experiences that I have had while working there that involved a few people who were blind. As I said before I could never tell if anyone there had a disability and if they did what kind because I didn’t want to ask because that could be HIPAA violation or just make them uncomfortable. So as far as I knew no one had anything, they were …show more content…
It surprised me that even though I had some classes under my belt at that point that I had no idea what to do when that happened. It wasn’t until later in the course that I found out what I should have done at that time. In the course we have learned how to make auto descriptions which could even translate into auto picture descriptions. Admittedly, looking back at it now, I wish I knew all of this then. This way the person could have “seen” the