1. Dorcas Lynn Chen
d.chen.ucf@knights.ucf.edu
12/07/11
EEX 2010

2.  Sanford Middle School is a magnet middle school in
Seminole County. The ESE department consists of
Specific Learning Disability, Autism Spectrum
Disorder, Mildly Intellectually Disabled, and
Emotionally and Behaviorally Disabled classrooms.
 The MID unit opened two years ago, and the ASD
unit was opened last year with a secondary unit
opening this school year.
 The total number of students served by the
EBD, MID and ASD units is 27. There are 10 girls
and 17 boys between these programs.
 Many of the students come from economically
depressed areas.

3.  The students in our programs have many different
disabilities. They range from Autism, and Aspergers
syndrome, to Pervasive Developmental Disorder and
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome as well as many other
unidentified genetic anomalies.
 The ages of our students are from 11 – 16 years old.
 They come from several different racial backgrounds.
We have African American students, Hispanic
students, Caucasian students and many that are of
mixed heritage.
 These students are in our programs because their
disabilities interfere with their educational achievement.
 The fund raising event primarily benefits our ASD and
MID classrooms which consist of a total of 22 students.

4.  Sanford Middle School has a beautiful kitchen/life
skills area for use by the ESE/ASD department.
This is not a problem, however, the problem is a
lack of funding for the students to utilize the
kitchen for cooking projects.

5.  SMS has a fall festival each year to raise funds
for different departments such as
sports, language arts, ESE, and foreign
language. I requested the opportunity to
hold a bake sale at the fall festival to fund our
cooking projects.

6.  I began the process by looking for recipes
online. The idea was to choose recipes that
the students would be able to help make.
Nichole Boehmer, the teacher in our ASD
classroom, came up with the witch hat cookie
recipe, and I spotted the rice crispie
pumpkins. Since the fall festival was held on
October 29th the Halloween theme seemed
fitting.

7.  October 23rd - Purchase supplies
at Walmart
 October 28th - Work with
students, teachers and assistants
to make treats and cookies
 October 29th - Set up bake sale
and work the booth

8.  Grocery List Grocery List
• Rice Crispies •Fudge Stripe Cookies
• Marshmallows •Hershey’s Kisses
• Food Coloring •Icing
•Food Coloring
• Icing
• Gum Drops
• Margarine
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9.  Week of October 23rd - Three hours to earn the
money for supplies.
 10/23/11 – one hour shopping at Walmart.
 10/28/11 – four hours preparing baked goods.
 10/29/11 – five hours working the bake sale.
 11/7/11 – one hour drive time to get gift cards.
 11/9/11 – one hour drive time to get gift cards.
 11/11/11 – two hours selling cookies and hot
chocolate.
 11/14/11 - one hour drive time to get gift cards.

12.  This project was completed for Introduction to
Exceptional Education.
 The three concepts that I feel were well
represented by the individuals with whom I worked
are:
1. Students with mild intellectual disabilities are able to integrate
into society as they become adults.
2. Students with moderate intellectual disabilities need more
support when they are adults.
3. Students with Autism have extreme difficulties interacting with
their peers.
The students with whom I worked on this project were
representative of all three of these categories. Student

13.  The students with whom I worked on this project were
representative of all three of these categories.
 Students with mild intellectual disabilities were quite capable of
learning the steps to a recipe, and performing them. They had no
trouble interacting with each other and seemed to be on the social
level of their same age peers.
 Students with moderate disabilities needed many adult supports to
perform the steps of the recipe ranging from step by step prompting
to hand over hand assistance.
 The students with autism were almost completely unable to interact
with other students while we worked on the activities.

14.  I have always felt that it is important to give of myself to help
others. In the years that I have been working with students
with exceptionalities, I have spent many hours volunteering
before, after school and on weekends.
 For me , volunteering is an opportunity to help others and at
the same time it makes me feel good about myself.
 For individuals with special needs, volunteers can do so much
to enrich their lives, such as offer them
entertainment, independence, and the chance to learn
something new.
 I will continue to participate in any volunteer activities that
are available.
 I would encourage others to offer their services to exceptional
students. In fact this spring our school will participate in the
Autism Society of Greater Orlando Walk for Autism. We would
love to have other UCF students help us represent our school.

15. I believe that every exceptional child deserves
the best possible chance to learn. The
students in our classes are our second family
and I will do anything to further their
educational success.
As a result of our fund raising efforts, our
class has raised enough money to fund our
cooking activities for the
remainder of the
school year.