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Fitness has always been at the top of many new year’s resolutions. As school-based practitioners, we should have the same resolution for our students with disabilities, and help make it happen. So, we start the year by providing resources and discussions on increasing opportunities for physical activity in our schools.<\/p>\n
This CDC study<\/a> may be 5 years old, but we believe it is of great use for school-based PTs as an advocacy tool for promoting movement throughout the school day. Every school-based PT should be ready to share the knowledge gleaned from this study with teachers, administrators and other school personnel. The study is proof that movement throughout the school day and week promotes learning. It also includes suggestions on how to create opportunities for physical activity. <\/span><\/p>\n The study looked at 4 different types of physical activities:<\/span><\/p>\n Their Findings<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Physical Education<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Recess<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Classroom-based Physical Activity<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Extracurricular Physical Activities<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n PT and Academics<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n School-based PTs who are struggling to find a clear connection between PT and academics need look no further: academic performance is enhanced by movement, and PTs are experts in movement! Teachers can more readily buy into a movement program if they know that it will help improve their student\u2019s academic performance. They will also find it helpful that students’ classroom behavior is likely to improve. Physical activities may make students less fidgety and more attentive.<\/span><\/p>\n A frequent concern of teachers and school administrators is that physical activity will take time away from the students\u2019 learning. They will be pleased to learn that this study found that time spent on physical activities had no adverse effect on the students\u2019 academics. <\/span><\/p>\n Students with Disabilities and Movement<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Movement opportunities throughout the school day may be even more important for students with disabilities. They engage in less physical activities than their peers with typical development, and, consequently, develop more secondary impairments. (Rowland et al, 2015<\/a>) <\/span><\/p>\n In addition to the academic benefits described above, physical activities can also give them opportunities to:<\/span><\/p>\n Take-aways<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n As the school\u2019s movement experts, PTs should tout the academic benefits of movement and:<\/span><\/p>\n We’ll share some classroom movement resources with you next week. In the meantime, spread the word: movement is good for academic performance! <\/span><\/p>\n ~~~~~~~~~~ 0 ~~~~~~~~~~<\/em><\/p>\n Readers of this article also read:<\/p>\n 7 Wheelchair Operation Tests for School-based Therapists<\/a><\/p>\n IEP 4.0 – Creating an Intentional Plan of Care<\/a><\/p>\n Response to Intervention, Multiple Tier Systems of Support and PT <\/a><\/p>\n Top 10 Walking Tests for School-based PTs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [smbtoolbar] Happy New Year, SeekFreaks! Fitness has always been at the top of many new year’s resolutions. As school-based practitioners, we should have the same resolution for our students with disabilities, and help make it happen. So, we start the… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evidence","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekfreaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekfreaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekfreaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekfreaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekfreaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekfreaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100880,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekfreaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/100880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekfreaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekfreaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekfreaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekfreaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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