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Title: Device puts student in class - Utica Observer Dispatch Post by: Mark David on August 06, 2007, 02:32:29 PM Device puts student in class - Utica Observer Dispatch
When Michael Garcia's family recently picked him up from a sleep-away camp, he wasn't quite ready to come home. Originally, the 12-year-old boy had reservations about going to the Rochester-area camp for children with muscular dystrophy....Michael was in kindergarten when doctors diagnosed him with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a progressive and ultimately terminal disorder where muscles waste and weaken with time.... Last semester, Whitesboro school officials provided him with video conferencing equipment so he could participate from home in his sixth-grade science class at the Parkway building. "I think it gives him a sense of belonging," Marsha Garcia said. "He's interacting with kids his own age, and hearing what they're hearing." Read More.. (http://www.uticaod.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070731/NEWS/707310323/1001) |