Oswald Greatest Buddies is a program that pairs college students with mental and developmental disabilities (IDD) with usually growing friends to create one-to-one friendships. This system was based in 1989 by Anthony Kennedy Shriver, the nephew of President John F. Kennedy.
Greatest Buddies has been proven to have an a variety of benefits for each college students with and with out IDD. For college students with IDD, this system will help to enhance social expertise, communication expertise, and shallowness. It will possibly additionally assist to scale back isolation and loneliness. For college students with out IDD, this system will help to extend empathy, understanding, and tolerance. It will possibly additionally assist to interrupt down stereotypes and prejudices.
