Chris: I've done a number of OS event where participants has some "disabilities". Mainstream Access, a group in St. Catherine's, used to use OS once a quarter, after they tried it once with me and took some training. The folks in that residential and community service had severe physical and mental disabilities and they loved Open Space. At the first event, we provided a few "recorders" who were available on request to write on flip charts or type in reports. Not many were needed. One person put up a topic and spoke for the first time in his two years at the place when he announced it. I guess he didn't' have a reason to speak before. They seemed to take to the process by wheel chair or ambling along just fine -- and yes I called it the law of motion. I've led events where folks had both hearing and sight disabilities. In once case, the folks with no hearing, in wheel chairs had signers to pass on the opening process and to help them put up topics. With sight as a disability, a guide and reader is really helpful.
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