July 20

Last class!

Today we watched a couple of inspirational videos about individuals with various challenges such as physical, intellectual, visual or hearing impairments and what they are able to achieve in sports and recreation with adaptive equipment, supportive people around them and their own determination.

The video about the boy who was able tp participate in a wall climbing activity and see him sitting on top of the wall for the first time in his life was very moving.

I am very happy to have been part of this course. While being part of this course I have been able to experience exciting new assistive technology; video social stories, I Pod Touch &APPs, Boardmaker Plus to name a few and I look forward to using in the future with my students.

Adaptive P.E. Games for Blind and Visually Impaired

In this video, the teacher shows several adaptations she has made to physical education equipment for visually impaired students. The adaptations are very inexpensive and the items can be bought at Dollar stores or local department stores. The ideas are great and could be used for students other than those that are visually impaired. This video is good to view as it sparks ideas of other inexpensive ways equipment may be adapted. It takes some creativity and our students with disabilities can participate in Physiacl Education class along with their peers.