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Wifey73

PE disability awareness?

What are some adaptive PE activities that children can participate in that simulate a disability to teach them about the Paralympics? For example, sitting volleyball, where instead of standing, all children must sit so they can understand what it is like to play a sport with a disability.

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A few days ago
Anonymous

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I don’t teach pe, but our school always participated in a disability awareness day, and the pe teachers set up an obstacle course. It was really cool. They borrowed supplies from a local medical supply company, and had kids complete specific tasks.

At one station, they had to dress themselves with thick gloves on to simulate limited fine motor skills. They had extra large clothes so they could put the outfit on over their existing ones using adaptive tools.

At another station, they had to go up a ramp in a wheelchair, and engage in everyday activities.

The teachers borrowed these distortion goggles from the local insurance company (the company used them at a booth for drunk driving awareness) to help kids understand what limited vision was like. The kids had to walk straight, and pick up objects.

There are a ton of physical activities that you can do just to make kids more aware. Sports are fine, but it would be cool to show them just how much effort physically challenged people have to put into day to day activities.

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