OST with people with Down's Syndrome

[Gerard Muller]

Dear Rafti,

Last week I conducted a training for a group of staff of a health care
institution focusing on physically and mentally handicapped people.
Among other things we prepared
an Open Space event which will take place on June 8th. I will forward
your question and ask them to react to it once they've had the event.

Greetings from Denmark,




Gerard Muller
Open Space Institute Denmark
Phone: (+45) 21269621
Mail: gm at openspace.dk



On May 10, 2005, at 3:30 PM, Raffi Aftandelian wrote:

> Hi all!
> I may have the opportunity to do some OST-related work with an NGO
> which works with people with Down Syndrome. It was started more than a
> decade ago by a Moscow family with a child with Down's Syndrome.
>
> I am wondering if there has been prior experience in using OST with
> children and adults with significant developmental disabilities. Also,
> I am curious if people know of developmentally disabled adults (or
> children) (or adults or children with Down's Syndrome) who have
> facilitated an OST meeting?
>
> I know only a little bit about the practice of people with
> developmental disabilities having a "facilitator," meaning a
> specialist who facilitates (as I understand) what the person is trying
> to say and translates back to the person what that person's
> conversation partner is saying. So, if it hasn't happened yet, I think
> it is totally within the realm of the possible for adults with
> developmental disabilities to open space with the help of a
> "facilitator."
>
> My (very) initial search of the OST archives yielded some
> disability-related events but nothing pointing specifically to working
> with people with developmental disabilities.
>
> If I had some concrete examples to go on, this would be very helpful
> in the initial contact with this potential client.
>
> Thank you,
> Raffi
>
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