Extension Scouting are programs in
Scouting
Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement employing the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hiking, backpacking ...
organizations which cater for young people with special needs.
Background
Extension Scouting was earlier called ''Scouts Malgré Tout'', which is French for "Scouts Despite Everything". It aims to meet the mandate from
Robert Baden-Powell, founder and first
Chief Scout of
The Boy Scouts Association in the
United Kingdom, that the programme be made "open to all."
Young people with special needs join in with Scout groups on a regular basis but some organizations provide a special parallel program tailored to these participants. For example, The Scout Association of the United Kingdom formed a Disabled Scout Branch in 1926 and has various Scoutlink groups around the country. Scoutlink is a program run by The Scout Association of the United Kingdom in order to provide support and involvement for young people and adults with
developmental disabilities, a form of Extension Scouting but is also the name of an Internet chat site and joint programs between The Scout Association in Northern Ireland and
Scouting Ireland.
Extension Scouting is known by different names:
* in the Netherlands, "Blauwe Vogels" (Blue Birds), after the play
L'Oiseau Bleu by
Maurice Maeterlinck;
* in
Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen
Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen (Scouts and Guides of Flanders) is a coeducational, Flemish Scout and Guide organisation in Belgium and is a member of the Guidisme et Scoutisme en Belgique/Gidsen- en Scoutsbeweging in België (GSB, Guides and Scouts ...
, "AKABE", Anders KAn BEst (Different is all-right);
* in
Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
*Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
Scouts, "";
* in
Kenya Scouts Association
The Kenya Scouts Association is the national Scouting association of Kenya. Scouting was founded in British East Africa in 1910 and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1964. It has 323,929 members (as of 2010).
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, "
Street Scouts".
See also
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Agoonoree
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Scouts with Special Needs and Disabilities
Advancement and recognition in the Boy Scouts of America is a tradition dating from the inception of the Scouting movement. A fundamental purpose of advancement is the self-confidence a young man or woman acquires from his participation in Scouti ...
References
External links
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Scouting
Organizations for children with health issues
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