Tagged with: Autism Autism Spectrum Disorders conversation learning radio tool The Temple Gradin School at the University of Colorado in Boulder is offering a summer program for youth aged 11 – 16 on communication skills. The students are learning how to give recorded interviews of each other on the radio, as a technique for learning how to understand another person’s perspective in conversation.
Skateboard painting is a form of art where an artist paints directly onto the skateboard deck or where the skateboarder uses a skateboard as a paintbrush to create works of art on their concrete canvas.
Tagged with: encouragement home life Everybody has a place that they can call home; whether it be a traditional sort with a white picket fence or not, home can be found anywhere that your heart snuggles into. Throughout your life you are more than likely to call several places home without really stopping to think about what that actually implies, and less likely to call places home that actually are.
The fitness industry understands only too well that many people will register for programs may be attend a few practices, then drop-out, or some cases simply not show up. The best of intentions require a long commitment to see the goal fulfilled. For some organizations, their goal is to sell lengthy membership terms – often well in excess of their capacity if all members attended at the same time – in order to maximize profits. Such business models rely on the fluctuating motivations of their members. Some fitness clubs / groups sports, especially those that have a fitness or weight loss focus, will expect a lack of exercise adherence from many of their participants, and a few – unethically – will not do much about it.
Tagged with: bachelorette party marriage paralyzed spinal cord injury wheelchair Rachelle Friedman will soon finally get to walk down the aisle. She would have already been married a year ago, but an accident days before the big day left her paralyzed. Now, a year after the accident she will get to marry her then fiancé.
Tagged with: adaptive equipment equipment exercise Physical Activity physical disabilities Right Fit Slider Summer is that time of the year that offers us the time to explore, travel, and reconnect with relatives and friends. As for Right Fit trainers and staff, it provided the time to discuss designing a piece of fitness equipment that will make strength and endurance exercises easier for our clients with physical and mental disabilities.
Self-determination “encompasses concepts such as free will, civil and human rights, freedom of choice, independence, personal agency, self-direction, and individual responsibility”.[i]
Tagged with: advocate awareness diagnosis disabilities disability disability rights life When you hear the name, “Montel Williams” what do you think? A daytime-Emmy award winner? A well renowned talk show host for the past 17 years?
Tagged with: ALS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis exercise Physical Activity Introduction to ALS
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (pronounced: a-mi-oh-TROH-fik LAT-ur-ul skluh-ROH-sis) or ALS is a serious, degenerative nervous system disease that causes weakness, muscle atrophy, spasticity, and trouble breathing. Early symptoms include muscle twitching, weakness in limbs, slurred speech and awkwardness. Most of the people who are affected by ALS first notice that they have started to trip or stumble, particularly if they have a “dropped foot” that no longer lifts when walking. Others notice that they have begun to have difficulty in buttoning a shirt or using a key to open a lock. A small percentage of people have an onset in which difficulty in speaking clearly or swallowing are the first noticeable symptoms. Regardless of where the first symptoms initiate, the disease gradually spreads throughout the body.
Tagged with: kids Obesity outdoors Physical Activity recreation It is well documented that one third of American children and more than one half of adults remain overweight or obese. It seems certain that technology will continue to give all of us more opportunities to stay connected and enjoy many conveniences of the computer age.
