Daily News | Carousel House families miss their old home, as Philly eyes a new rec center plan for people with disabilities
Theresa and Charles Perkins watched their son grow up at Carousel House. There, he became a young man, while surrounded by friends with physical and intellectual disabilities.
City officials have promised a state-of-the-art rec center to be built on the site, but that is likely years away. Theresa Perkins is also worried about the integration process and how it will affect her son and his friends.Carousel House is awaiting demolition, rusting away behind a padlocked fence on a 5.2-acre site down the street from the Please Touch Museum in Parkside.
and lives in Center City, said in an interview last week. “There is no doubt having people who know how to work with children and adults with different types of disabilities is an advantage. But it doesn’t have to be just Carousel House.”that will require the city to install or fix at least 10,000 sidewalk curb ramps, said policies aimed at integration ultimately benefit both people with and without disabilities, particularly children. Otherwise, she said, kids can develop biases.
In the next room, participants in the program joined in with tambourines, drums, and shakers during an acoustic guitar version of Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” as part of a music therapy session. Vilade has been focused on building new partnerships to expand inclusive programs throughout the city.
Riley, whose 41-year-old son had been going there since he was 12, said the council did not receive advance notice that the center would be permanently closed. She said she doesn’t think city officials grasped how important it was to so many people.
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