Communications
27200 Hilliard Blvd.
Westlake, OH 44145
440.250.1258
www.wlake.org
bonvissuto@wlake.org
Oct. 12, 2015
MAZY & MYLO TREATS
Erin Blahnik’s special education students at Lee Burneson Middle School are
learning real-world skills and changing lives through a new business venture –
Mazy & Mylo Treats.
The middle school students are starting a dog biscuit business to sell dog treats
to school district employees, friends, family and community members.
“It’s a way for my students to practice their functional skills and a way to give
back,” Blahnik said.
Their efforts will support Guiding Eyes for the Blind, which provides professionally
trained dogs for blind and visually impaired children and adults, as well as
children with autism. The group brought some canine trainees in to visit the
students recently to show them who Mazy & Mylo Treats is helping.
Students work together to put ingredients together to make the dog biscuits,
then wrap them in individual bags with a Mazy & Mylo Treats sticker. Once a
week the students hand-deliver orders at the middle school.
Among the real-life skills students are learning include:
• Communication and social skills, both in making the products and selling
them. Students will practice turn taking, requesting items, giving directions,
using appropriate manners while at work, appropriate hygiene skills while
working, greeting customers, talking about the product, and meeting new
people and animals.
• Communication and social skills will be used while working with typical
peers that help in the classroom.
• Functional math skills – measuring, time, quantity, counting.
• Functional reading skills – reading a recipe and visual schedules.
• Vocational skills – packaging items using a jig.
• Employability skills – appropriate hygiene, manners, being on time,
following directions.
WE EDUCATE FOR EXCELLENCE…
Empowering all students to achieve their educational goals, to direct their lives,
and to contribute to society
Communications
27200 Hilliard Blvd.
Westlake, OH 44145
440.250.1258
www.wlake.org
bonvissuto@wlake.org
Startup costs were completely covered by the LBMS PTA and n2y, a Hudson-based
company that develops special education curriculum, which is used in Westlake.
Anyone who wants to place an order for Mazy & Mylo Treats can fill out an order form
at
http://www.westlake.k12.oh.us/parents/parents_home/FlyerConnectionList/Mazy%20an
d%20Mylo%20order%20form.pdf and email it to blahnik@wlake.org. Cash only is
accepted. Treats cost $3 per dozen and flavors may change weekly.
WE EDUCATE FOR EXCELLENCE…
Empowering all students to achieve their educational goals, to direct their lives,
and to contribute to society