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CoachGoofy
Today a family who's daughter I teach in a rec class introduced me to their older daughter, who is in love with the idea of the sport, and they're signing her up for private lessons.
I am totally down with this, and excited, but a bit nervous. This child is enthusiastic, funny, thrilled to bits to get a chance, and has a moderate-severe physical disability, I think cerbral palsy. She is able to walk with assistance, and has use of one arm. Her grip strength in that arm is pretty fantastic, too. She seems to be pretty strong in the abs, too, but I didn't have a lot of time with her & the 10 minute minilesson I gave her was making stuff up as I went.
Any resources or ideas for skills and exercises to do with her? I'm opposed on general principle to "special needs" gymnastics programs that are just supervised play time in a gym, and I'd like her to have fun, get a work out, and get to feel that same "heck yes. I did it" that ANY child in gymnastics gets to feel.
Ideas, please??? I've had lots of kids with developmental disabilities, but these are deeper parts of only partially charted waters and I want this girl to have a full gymnastics experience.
I am totally down with this, and excited, but a bit nervous. This child is enthusiastic, funny, thrilled to bits to get a chance, and has a moderate-severe physical disability, I think cerbral palsy. She is able to walk with assistance, and has use of one arm. Her grip strength in that arm is pretty fantastic, too. She seems to be pretty strong in the abs, too, but I didn't have a lot of time with her & the 10 minute minilesson I gave her was making stuff up as I went.
Any resources or ideas for skills and exercises to do with her? I'm opposed on general principle to "special needs" gymnastics programs that are just supervised play time in a gym, and I'd like her to have fun, get a work out, and get to feel that same "heck yes. I did it" that ANY child in gymnastics gets to feel.
Ideas, please??? I've had lots of kids with developmental disabilities, but these are deeper parts of only partially charted waters and I want this girl to have a full gymnastics experience.