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I love the Tumbl Trak Fitness Wheels, especially the larger size shown in this video.
For any group it’s easy to come up with dozens of fun & valuable activities.
This is new.
Turn your Fitness Wheel into a hanging sensory station with the Fitness Wheel Hammock. Designed for snug compatibility with the 5’ Fitness Wheel, clients will love swinging, spinning, rocking, and balancing safely in the suspended wheel.
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Prince Harry attended a Rebound Therapy session at OXSRAD Disability Sports and Leisure Centre in Oxford.
Shine Shed is a large new indoor play centre which is build for children and adults with special needs and for their families and friends too. …
The Shine Shed offers a unique sensory play experience designed to meet the needs of children, teens and young adults with special needs. Limited numbers, caring staff, friendly and understanding environment. A great activity for the whole family. We welcome everyone – with or without special needs
Click PLAY or watch a Special Needs video on Facebook.
We often talk about the 5 senses, but proprioception is even more important than those five.
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Sight (vision), hearing (audition), taste (gustation), smell (olfaction), and touch (somatosensation) are the five traditionally recognized senses. The ability to detect other stimuli beyond those governed by these most broadly recognized senses also exists, and these sensory modalities include temperature (thermoception), kinesthetic sense (proprioception), pain (nociception), balance (equilibrioception), vibration (mechanoreception), and various internal stimuli (e.g. the different chemoreceptors for detecting salt and carbon dioxide concentrations in the blood, or sense of hunger and sense of thirst).
For more than 10 years, P.L.A.Y. @Limitless has been providing occupational therapy services to the Montreal community. In September, the company launched its latest initiative, a gymnastics program for people with special needs.
Owner Ann Zilberbrant says the goal is to promote an active and healthy lifestyle in an inclusive environment for children and adults living with attention, developmental and autism spectrum disorders, intellectual challenges, Down syndrome and other disabilities. …
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related – British Gymnastics – Discover Disability Gymnastics
Jamie Pacton:
Gymnastics can benefit kids tremendously, especially kids with special needs.
Liam, my 7-year-old with autism, has been working with a gymnastics coach for almost two years, and in that time, he’s made huge gains in motor skills, following directions, expressive language, and confidence. …
When he first started, he was timid, resistant, and uncoordinated; now his confidence shines through in every activity he completes. …
COACH SARAH BANCK:
My overall philosophy on children with special needs is very similar to how I approach coaching children of all abilities. Confidence comes from success, however children cannot make the distinctions between failing at a skill and being a failure. This is why progressions or deescalating a skill is so imperative in teaching. Adjusting and breaking a skill into its most minute parts assures individual success regardless of skill level and is pertinent in developing a positive sense of self and task mastery. …
Reblogged this on Bella Bounces and commented:
I love this! I’m learning more and more about different disabilities and how to adapt my coaching and I can honestly say that Jamie has unlocked an absolutely vital key – breaking things down. I’ve met a lot of children who have little confidence in their own ability and become easily upset or frustrated if they perceive that they ‘can’t’ do something and more often than not these aren’t people with whom you can explain that it won’t be perfect the first time around! Little victories working towards a bigger long term goal, even if the long term goal is one complete skill is the absolute key to keeping them keen, learning and having fun. Infinite patience and creativity when teaching little bits of skills is also required, ’cause who wants to do step 1 over and over again?
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