College rallies behind its disabled students

“I always like to help out people who are less fortunate than I am because I realize how fortunate I am,” said Legault. “So maybe some day in the future if I would like to give back to the community or give back to people who are less fortunate this experience might be helpful for me.”

Alex Cochrane, assistive devices technologist at the Porcupine campus, said, “We have a wheelchair rally that we put teams into and they go around to different stations and kind of experience what it is to be disabled.

“The whole point of the day is to make people aware of just how difficult people with disabilities have it, how much extra they have to learn or have to accomplish to do things that we take for granted.”

Cochrane works with the Learning and Disabilities Service at the campus.

He said of 800 students, roughly 20 per cent are registered with the centre for students with disabilities.

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Published on February 28, 2008

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