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Creative Workouts in Wheelchairs
I often blog about children with autism, attention issues and/or students with sensory processing disorders. At this time, I want to focus on some of our other kids with special needs - those that use wheelchairs. Check out this short video from a mother-daughter team who learned how to make fitness creative and effective for both of them, all the while having loads of fun in the process!
From our adapted PE colleagues, we received this suggestion on the Equilizer, a product solution that helps differently abled kids participate in floor hockey, tee ball and other interactive activities.
For fine-motor workouts, the Multisensory Rainbow is a wheelchair tray with
activity arches to suspend favorite objects. Great for visual tracking and encouraging arm and hand movements.
What are your favorite workout ideas for your wheelchair users? Let us know!
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Comment by Martianne Stanger on March 19, 2012 at 8:25pm -
I can also see activities with pool noddles perhaps bein adapted - one like those at http://www.noodlegames.net/
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Comment by Martianne Stanger on March 19, 2012 at 8:24pm
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I have seen kids (and elderly folks) do bowling in all sorts of ways from wheelchairs with huge smiles!
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Comment by Cecilia Cruse on March 12, 2012 at 3:02pm -
Great! Yes I think these ideas are great for summer camp as well. Be sure to check out our PE counterpart Sportime for more online resources including NASPE Talk that may help give you further ideas. Good luck!
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Comment by Nicholle Taurins on March 10, 2012 at 5:46pm
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Thank you for posting this! In the summer I work at a camp for differently-abled people of all ages, and several of them use a wheelchair. It seems like these could easily be adapted for the summer camp environment, and our campers would have a ball!
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