Home Depot Helps League School Students Build Birdhouses - and Communication Skills

By Andy Zides
May 14, 2010

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On Tuesday, March 30th, the League School, in conjunction with Home Depot, sponsored a special Kid’s Workshop at which Home Depot employees visited the school to teach students in the CAT Program how to build their own birdhouses. This was the first in a series of workshops run by Home Depot focusing on instructing students across all programs in the basics of woodworking. During the workshop, students were provided their own orange Home Depot aprons, tee shirts, and pins. With the assistance of Home Depot and League School staff, students were taught how to fit pre-cut wooden blocks of various shapes in a step-by-step process, using nails, small hammers, and wood glue. Workshops such as this provide a multidisciplinary approach to addressing student’s skills in executive functioning, social communication, fine motor, and bi-lateral integration. The workshop proved so successful that students were still talking about their experience weeks later, and one student even expressed an interest in obtaining employment at Home Depot. The volunteers from Home Depot worked enthusiastically with our students and are looking forward to returning in the future. League School wishes to thank Home Depot’s Norwood store manager, Renee, and volunteers Brad, Kathy and Shirley for their efforts with the students. We look forward to Home Depot’s next workshop at the school on June 2nd.

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