Abilities Digest Late Summer 2020 Issue

Able Scouting logo with BSA fleur

The Summer issue of Abilities Digest contains the following:

  • Adapting Advancement: Joining conferences for new Scouts; saying good-bye to board of review anxiety.
  • Enhancing Awareness: The experience of blindness.
  • Adapting Activities: Choosing a unit for a Scout with special needs; Responses when a unit leader rejects a proposed accommodation.
  • Awareness Events: Staffing opportunities for Disabilities Awareness Challenges at the upcoming National Scout Jamboree.
  • Recognizing Abilities: The Special Needs Scouting Service Award.
  • 2021 Philmont summer events.

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