Canada: Disabled student has sights set on journalism gig
Brulotte, 12, is one of more than 40 B.C. students with disabilities who are applying for special journalist accreditations to cover the Vancouver Olympics and Paralympics for local media.
The arrangement is part of an unusual program announced Tuesday by 2010 Legacies Now, Special Education Technology (SET) and 3M, which are funding a two-year, $200,000 “Virtual Voices Village” project to teach children with disabilities how to write and post their interviews online.
The announcement coincides with a number of activities organized by the Vancouver Organizing Committee to mark the two-year countdown to the Paralympics. Today, Paralympian Todd Nicholson, a member of the gold-medal Canadian sledge hockey team, will be at Trout Lake Community Centre to show school children how disabled athletes use their sporting equipment. And in Whistler, there will be an afternoon party at the public library.
Published on March 30, 2008
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