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Help from Star Trek clubs/fans or any Sci-fi fan.?

I teach at a center base (public) school for disable students. We cover a wide range of disable students. One of our students is a young man who is in the low trainable range who also is autistic. Many times someone with autism will develop a controlling fascination with something to the point that it becomes part of him/her and her/his life. Years have been wasted trying to break or decrease these controlling factors in these rather than working with them. The student this letter is referring to have a fascination with Star Trek. (This drives his teacher crazy especially when he speck what he calls Klingon.) He and I have developed a good relationship because I will talk to him making Klingon like sound. No, I don’t speak Klingon but with him it seem to work and beside it really drives his teacher crazy which just go to encourages me more. He refers to me as Captain Kirk and I refer to him as Lt. Commander. The classroom staff will from time to time use terms from Star Trek to get him to do some of his tasks. Hey, you go with what works.

He would really love a Star Trek uniform. Unsure how much a good one cost but if a fan club or group make this a project the cost could be divided by the whole group. We may even be able to set up a day for your group to present the uniform to him if you live close enough to Columbia, S.C. His sizes are shirt: XL, Pants XL or 36x30, shoes size 10.

You can reach me a shepherd@gbpackersfan.com or dkeisler@richlandone.org . You can check out our school at htt://fairwold.rcsd1.org .

Thanks for your time.

Update:

Because of his behaviors he would need a real one not one of those like you get for Halloween. Also you need to know the make up of our students. This student is one of the higher ones. We also try to bring in people from the outside for things like this so more people will get to know our schools and students. The staff at our school already put out a lot of out of pocket money for food and clothing ect... it is hard to get them to do something like this. I just felt this would be a great project a a fan club and it would open up a new world to them at the same time.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    As someone who works with people with disabilities I commend you for your efforts to help him.

    At the moment Star Trek costumes are very hard to find, but Star Trek.COM's store does have costumes designed after those from TOS and Star Trek XI available for order. Unfortunately they are the shirts only which does not fit your needs, but they are your best bet I'm afraid. The shirts average around $45.00

    Every once in a while you can also find replica's of the TOS uniform shirts at Hot Topic stores.

  • Liz
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    1 decade ago

    Why don't you just buy him one from a costume shop? I've seen them online for as little as 50 bucks. Maybe the students at your school will donate

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