I attended an AA meeting that had five group members. Since there were so few members, we had the opportunity to directly interact with the members before the meeting began. Immediately, we were greeted with hugs, introductions, and questions about our situation. We disclosed to them that we were students and asked permission to be there. Since this was such a small group, I made sure to reiterate that if our presence was unsettling to anyone, we would leave. F or this 12-step meeting, each member alternates weeks in which they are the leader. On this particular day, the assigned leader did not show up, so another group member took on the advisory role. His main task was to choose the topic then started the conversation. What I found to be interesting about this leader was that he made sure we knew everything that was going on. He would stop and explain to us why he was doing something a particular way before moving on. I think this helped the other members...
Universal design is the design of products and the enviorment to be accessible by all people. I find this to be a very interesting concept, because the more I observe my enviorment, the more I notice how far away we are from this. When I first learned about universal design, one of my initial thoughts was that UT's campus was definitely universally designed. I mean, there's handrails on the toilets and ramps by the stairs, that's the prime example of a universal design. Under further inspection, I realized I was completely wrong. When you get off the elevator, there is a giant gap and uneven surface. How is a person in a wheel chair supposed to easily get over a gap, when the elevator is their only way to get on the upper levels. If you go into the general education building, you have to go up a ramp that has multiple turns. If you're in a wheel chair, making a turn in a tight area is not ideal. Even though places have designs that technically make is accessible, they s...
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