Swim Team Page #4

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What was the time?

Three minutes.

Let's go. The fab four.

Did you say the F word?

-I'm sorry.

-F word! F word!

It's okay. It's okay.

It's bound to erupt.

Congratulations, guys.

Good job. Nice.

Officer, what are you

doing here?

I'm giving you awards.

It's okay.

You can... It's all right.

Guys, look over here,

get your hands up.

Kelvin, hands up.

Congratulations.

-All right.

-You guys are great.

Nicely done, guys.

That means we don't need

to do the theater anymore?

Not today.

Someone else is going

to do the theater today.

Okay. Yeah, yeah.

Okay, yeah, yeah, right.

All right.

Brian, I'm about to be

finished up for sweeping

You did a good job sweeping.

-Did a good job?

-I need you to go back here,

clean behind the snack

counter for me now.

-Okay. Sure.

-All right.

Needs to be filled already?

Yep.

I got a refill for you.

It's good for you.

Thank you, Brian.

Job security.

Job security. There's no issue.

I'm sorry. Thank you, Brian.

Good job, yeah.

Looking good. Don't forget

to clean the grates, right?

-There?

-Clean these off.

-You're right.

-And clean these off, okay?

This one here?

-Yep. Here, let me see.

-You can check it out.

It's okay.

-You can actually lift it up.

-You're right.

-Clean it like that.

-Okay.

Shoot. Forgot.

Not yet. Boom.

Okay?

I'm 32. No.

I'm just joking. Not 32.

I'm pregnant!

No, just joking.

I'm not pregnant.

He's 22 now.

He's an adult, but he cannot

just go out and live on his own.

So that glass

on the other side.

-Yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry.

-Okay.

We apply to group home

through our state.

The total is,

it's like 8,000-something.

Even priority list,

that's like 4,000-something,

and our first year,

they just placed,

like, 20 of them.

So I figure, when Kelvin

turns 220 years old,

he may get the spot,

you know, in a state group home.

No, no, no, n-no, no.

I can't do that.

If I do that like that,

get in trouble.

Don't get in trouble.

Three 100s, freestyle.

Work on flip turns.

-No. I don't like that.

-You have to try it.

No!

I know we don't like it,

but remember what we told you.

What we don't like,

we have to do.

-No.

-Work on flip turns.

-I still love you.

-Go, go. I love you, too.

Do we need to do

freestyle four times?

After the swim team meet,

Kelvin had problem with it.

He didn't want to go swimming.

Come on! I hate this.

Go, Kelvin! Go!

I'm really tired.

I don't want...

The coach, I mean, asks us

whether he wanted to swim,

and I talked to him.

He said he doesn't want to swim.

And we asked him why.

He mentioned about,

'cause swim team,

they need to participate

in the Special Olympic game.

He complained

it's always a long wait.

He didn't know

how to occupy himself.

He was concerned

about his tics.

In that situation, he couldn't

get his personal distance.

I pretty much get him

one step at a time.

I asked him whether,

if he go to,

just go swimming practice

instead of going to the meet.

Don't think about the meet,

and just go practice.

And he's like,

"Okay, go practice."

He just wanted to come

and practice with the team

but not participate

in competition,

so we told him

that's not how it works.

You know, we told him

in layman's terms,

"If you want to be part of

the team, Jersey Hammerheads,

you have to come to practices,

and you have to compete."

Coach gave us an ultimatum

and said, "Okay.

If you don't want to go to meet,

you cannot join a team."

He didn't want to go.

We tried very hard

to persuade him once, you know,

so the third time charm,

and we picked the battle.

We gave up sending him

for the swim team practice.

See? I got it.

See? I got it off here. See?

I will do that.

I don't feel the school

is doing their job with him.

There's no resources

for these children.

They talk to us about,

"We will send him to Walmart

so he can learn how to stock."

That's not what we want.

Hey!

Design games,

that's what I'd love to do.

If you want to make characters,

first, you

need to use one of those papers.

So you need to...

Example.

I'm drawing, like, maybe Mario.

So you have to copy it

and copy it,

so you have to make movements,

like, my hands

moving and moving.

So you need to flip it over,

like, flip it.

That's how you do it.

So that's what I do.

Arts and animation,

computer, that's my skills.

Robbie is in a system.

They're just going to pass him

through a system

where you took math,

reading, and all these courses,

and here you go.

You graduate with a diploma,

but they're not really

giving him what he needs.

Where is he going to work? What

is he going to do for a living?

They're not giving him

the skills,

and they're not targeting

where it will help him

maybe get a job in something

that he has a passion for.

Mike turns 18 in July,

correct?

Correct.

I'll just shut this off?

Sorry about that.

So once a person turns 18

in New Jersey, they're an adult,

and they have the right to make

the decisions in their lives

that the parents had the rights

to make up until the age of 18,

so things like whether

he goes to school,

where he goes to school,

what medical treatment

he gets, where he lives.

You know, all these things

become his decisions...

-Okay.

-At the age of 18.

A typical 18-year-old,

we're going to expect

it's going to lean on mom

and dad to some extent.

There are certainly plenty

that can make those

decisions on their own,

but when you throw in the fact

that somebody has a disability,

then we have to think about

whether they have the capacity

to make decisions and to protect

their self-interests

by making good decisions.

The guardianship takes

his decision-making abilities

and transfers it

to the guardianship.

Once the judge appoints you

as guardians, then, as I said,

you have all those rights

to make the decisions for Mike.

Tell me a little bit about Mike

before we dive into it.

-You can ask him a question.

-It'll take a while for him

to answer you, or he won't know

how to answer you.

-So Mike can read.

-Yeah.

-He can do math.

-Yeah.

Is he around grade-level

in those areas, would you say?

No, no. He's below.

He's below.

He's been below his whole life.

Okay. So, Mike, do you think

he has an understanding

of the value of money?

If we asked him

how much a CD costs...

-No, no.

-No, I don't think he'd know.

Would he have an idea

that it's $15, $20 or that...

If you told him $15 or $20,

he'd count it out for you.

No, but he won't know, like,

how much

would that cup of coffee be?

Right. Like, does he know

that a car costs, you know,

tens of thousands of dollars?

-No. No.

-No.

You know, especially, like,

if he went to the store

to get money,

he would give somebody,

if it's $5,

Mike will give them $20,

and he'll sit there and wait.

We're teaching him

how to count his money back,

make sure that he gets

the right receipt,

that nobody is taking

advantage of him.

Can he do the math to figure

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