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Chicago Elementary School Students Get Lesson In Compassion Through Adaptive Sports
Blacked-out goggles prevented the students from seeing the balls. They could only hear them.
May 29, 2026
Some Chicago Public Schools students on Thursday got to see firsthand how a person with a disability experiences everyday life through adaptive sports.
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At the gym inside Edgar Allan Poe Elementary Classical School in Pullman, students got a lesson in compassion while playing a game of goalball, a sport designed for athletes with visual impairments and played on volleyball courts with goals similar to soccer nets at each end of the court.
Blacked-out goggles prevented the students from seeing the balls. They could only hear them.
