Young Athletes is an innovative inclusive sports play program\u00a0 for children with and without intellectual disabilities, designed to introduce them to the world of sports…\u00a0 Developing Skills for success as a future special Olympics athlete: Foundational skills \/ walking and running\/ balancing and jumping \/ trapping and catching \/ throwing \/ kicking \/ striking \/ kicking \/ advanced skills…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now Chloe doesn’t have any disabilities that we’re aware of, so you may think it’s silly that we enrolled her in this class.\u00a0 But it has been so good for her.\u00a0 Not only is she learning fun things (like kicking and catching) and she gets to run off some energy in a controlled setting, but more importantly she’s learning how to wait for kids who are slower than her–which is a tough thing to learn.\u00a0\u00a0 She’ll finish a lot faster than the other students and she has to learn how to wait<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s been a good learning experience.<\/p>\n So on Monday’s she gets ready and Tim will walk her across the street to the school and she gets to “go to school.”\u00a0 The sisters that live across the street actually help lead the class, which is how I heard about it, so this last week one of them offered to take her for us.\u00a0 It was so cute to watch Chloe walk away to “school.”<\/p>\n Oh, and she gets a cool t-shirt to wear to class.\u00a0 She’s proud of her shirt.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n <\/a> We enrolled Chloe in a Monday night class that runs for 8 weeks.\u00a0 It’s the first official class we’ve taken the time to have her take part of (besides BSF of course–but this one costs $.\u00a0 Only $20 but, still, that’s money!)\u00a0 It’s called “Young Athlete.”\u00a0 Here’s the description: Young Athletes is an innovative inclusive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4611"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4640,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions\/4640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/young-athlete-4.jpg\" "\\"young")
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