VIDEO: Kids With Learning Disabilities Serve Scoops, Build Confidence
Students from Northbrook's Cove School learn job skills at Bobtail ice cream in Wilmette.
Like any parent, Meg Barnhart wants her son, Doug, to find fulfilling employment one day. He’s a 15-year-old who loves people and “can sell anybody anything,” said Barnhart. Because he has a language-based learning disability, Barnhart worries Doug wouldn’t be able to find meaningful work. “A lot of times, kids with language-based issues or cognitive-based issues are put behind the scenes, and that isn’t necessarily the right place for them,” said the Lake Forest resident. “To put my child in a real linear task, it would be a total waste of his talent.” While reading an article about gourmet ice cream flavors last summer, Barnhart had an idea: an ice cream shop would be the perfect place for her son, who attends Cove School in Northbrook, …
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Cathy Kominsky
10:54 am on Tuesday, August 30, 2011
I only wish they would get the word out to other business owners of the like and hire more adults with developmental disabilities. They are precious people with hopes of personal success for themselves and their business owners. Congratulations on such a great article and would love to hear how it is working down the line as a follow-up. more ›