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courses in horticulture

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  • 14-02-2012 8:45pm
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    berrypendel
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    Does anyone know of any courses in horticulture/gardening that would suit a disabled person. She has little energy so maybe part time


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    Scruffles
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    disabled represents a huge amount of differing needs,access issues and impairments, what disability do they actualy have?

    for example,if they have a global learning disability,autism,challenging behavior etc-there are usualy special courses in mainstream as well as courses in special colleges aimed at horticulture,its usualy a popular one,on mine; have been doing horticulture as part of a course for several years now-
    http://www.asdan.org.uk/Towards_Independence though there arent any access issues with the college because am living in a residential centre and we are home taught.
    -a problem will find with special education courses [they seem to refer to it as foundation courses over here from what have seen] is that they rarely ever get listed on the college list of courses that they do,so woud always recommend either visiting a college or contacting them in another form to ask them as opposed to just looking on their website.

    -for people who 'only' have physical disabilities or any other form, mainstream courses are usualy fine but it will be the access issues [if any] that need to sort out,as well as sorting out any needs/issues that may arrise in class before starting the course.

    -for people whose disability is a mental illness,do not know about what it is like in ireland but over here there are an increasing number of drop in centres for people with mental health issues and they offer a lot of classes which are for fun/ getting out/having structure in day etc rather than being formal classes in college and some of these places can be free.
    mum used to ocasionaly go to one of these to a knitting class,they had horticulture/pottery/computer/dance etc classes there and she only had to pay for her equipment....so if are not really bothered about getting a certificate out of it,this woud be worth searching for.
    perhaps the first step to find one of these woud be to google search,or check the local council out.


    for anyone regardless of disability-they shoud go and check the college out first to make sure it suits their needs,speak to a disability advisor at the college.


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