Blog #1
Hello! My name is Emerson Alton, and I am a sophomore at UW-Milwaukee. I am majoring in K-12 Special Education and plan on becoming a High School special ed teacher. I started off my journey here studying criminology but at the end of my freshman year I switched to special education. I have been working with kids with disabilities since I was a child due to my mom having a minor in special education. I never expected this to be the path I decided to follow but I am very excited that it is. I have been working at a special ed summer camp for the past 2 summers and then a summer school program for 3 years before that. During those three years, I was a one-on-one aide for a 4-year-old boy with Angelman's syndrome and have been doing respite care (babysitting but being paid by the government) for him since then. He is now 9 and has grown tremendously already through the years I have been with him.