Students at Garfield Elementary School put on eyeshades and perked up their ears this week to learn goalball, a team sport designed specifically for athletes with a vision impairment.SPS Vision Services Teachers partnered with visually impaired students, representatives from the Northwest Association for Blind Athletes, and Fitness & Health Teacher Donavon Hodgson to offer students this opportunity as part of Blindness Awareness Month.Goalball is the only Paralympic sport with no able-bodied equivalent. It was originally devised in 1946 to assist in the rehabilitation of visually impaired World War II veterans. Learn more at www.usaba.org/sports/goalball.

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