Innovative ideas for children with disabilities

There is an online competition where people send ideas on how to make this world better. Some of these ideas concern children with disabilities. These ideas try to include people with disabilities in many things. For example, music-making or sports.

A peculiar project, in which numerable ideas of ordinary people compete each other in innovation, imagination and creativity, is currently taking place online. Some of them concern children with disabilities (either intellectual or physical) suggesting uncommon ways to facilitate their inclusion in various kinds of tasks, like music making, sports and community activities.

Hundreds of ideas by ordinary people, who want to “refresh the world”, are recently gathering online within the framework of a competition, organised by a well-known American multinational company.

The project has already revealed lots of innovative ideas from people of all ages. Among them, there are several which concern people with disabilities, either intellectual or physical. “Supporting accessibility for music making by children with special needs” is the concept behind one of them. This idea is aiming at enabling people with disabilities to become music players as well as proving that people who are considered to be “dependent” can be independent creators, as anyone else”.

There are also some other ideas focusing on facilitating the participation of children with disabilities in other entertaining tasks, like sporting events and community activities, as a way for them to be more included in the society and develop friendships with other people with or without disabilities. To find out more about all the ideas of the project and how to vote for them, follow this link.

The project

The “Refreshed Project” is an online grant program which makes available millions of dollars to be granted to projects which are intended to improve communities through an online voting process. During each application period, a different challenge question is introduced and… the “game” begins! As an indication, the challenge question for August is: “How would you help communities rebuild the South?”, while “How can you upgrade your hometown with a new community garden?“ and “How would you make learning fun?” are the challenge questions, which will follow in September and October accordingly.