Centenary, Matheny Collaborate to Heighten Awareness Of Adaptive Phys Ed Equipment for Special Needs Children

Dr. Heather Dunham, dean for business
and education, tries out a power wheelchair.

A group of therapists, teachers and students from the Matheny Medical and Educational Center in Peapack spent about three hours at Centenary College’s John M. Reeves Student Recreation Center on November 16, demonstrating adaptive physical education equipment and offering Centenary students and faculty an opportunity to experience riding in power and manual wheelchairs and playing adaptive bocce and bowling. It was part of a special program developed between the two institutions and sponsored by the student chapter of the Council for Exceptional Children. The objective was to heighten awareness of what it is like to have a physical disability. The program was open to the whole Centenary campus.

Matheny, a special hospital and special education school for children and adults with medically complex developmental disabilities, and Centenary, an independent co-educational liberal arts and career studies college in Hackettstown, have been collaborating on several educational initiatives, drawing on the resources of both institutions in order to promote research and development on projects of mutual interest.

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