Beaver Scout Disability Awareness Activity Badge

Beaver Scout Disability Awareness Activity Badge

As Scouts we believe in inclusion, which means everyone is welcome and nobody gets left out. Play your part by learning about additional needs and disabilities.

How to earn the badge:

Disability awareness – do one of these:

• Explain what a disability is.
• Find out about a Paralympian and their sport. Tell a story about their achievements.
• Visit an activity centre or playground for people with disabilities.
• Talk about how your meeting place could be made better so that everyone can take part.
• Make a poster that tells others about a disability. Choose something that’s not mentioned later, in numbers 2, 3 or 4.

Physical disability awareness – do one of these:

• Show how to safely push a wheelchair.
• Talk about an aid that can help a disabled person. It could be a type of wheelchair,
• computer, grabber or rising chair.

Deaf awareness – do one of these:

• Learn how to fingerspell your name.
• Learn the Promise in British Sign Language.
• Explain what hearing dogs for deaf people do. Why are they helpful?

Sight awareness – do one of these:

• Talk about what guide dogs for blind people do.

** Requirements can be adapted to suit each young persons abilities