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EduSports Program for Special Children V1
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DEVELOPING A GENERATION OF FITTER & HEALTHIER CHILDREN400+ SCHOOLS | 50+ PRE-SCHOOLS | 21 STATES | 80+ CITIES | 3 COUNTRIES | 300000+ CHILDREN
EduSports Program for Students with Special Education Needs | 2014-15
INDEX
1. About EduSports
2. Importance of Physical Activity & Sports for Special Children
3. Special Children – Specific Needs
4. EduSports Programme for Special Children – The Structure and Approach
5. Case Study 1: LMOIS, Chennai
6. Case Study 2: Little Angels, Mumbai
7. Overview of EduSports Deliverable
| www.edusports.in
ABOUT EDUSPORTS
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Organization Overview
• India’s first & largest school sports/PE company (21 states. 80+ cities. 400+ schools. 3,00,000+ children)
• Fully integrated into the school processes/systems as a full-time service provider with a wide portfolio of offerings
• Making sports/physical activity in schools fun, age-appropriate & inclusive
• Team of 500+ people
VisionDevelop a generation of fitter and healthier children via the medium of sports/physical activity. This will be achieved by equipping ALL children with the right skills and fitness levels to engage in life-long physical activity and sports.
PAST IMPACT
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Social impact
• Implemented across 400+ schools, impacting 300,000+ children
• Fitter & Healthier children - Measured by % of children with the right BMI
• Improved skill levels - Observation based assessments in schools, and parent & school leader feedback
• Improved discipline, concentration amongst students. Life skills (leadership, sharing etc) imparted through sports
Economic impact
• 400+ instructors trained to be job-ready and placed in schools pan-India
• Effectively utilized limited infrastructure to save significant capital investment for schools
Impact3,00,000+ children (including some special kids) growing up with the right attitude, skills and fitness levels to engage regularly in sports/physical activity
CHANGE IN THE ATTITUDE OF SCHOOLS & PARENTS TOWARDS SPORTS IN SCHOOLS
CHILDREN IN ACTION
IMPORTANCE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN
All children can benefit from the exercise, energy release, and pure enjoyment of playing sports, and this
includes children with special needs.
Allowing special children to have equal access to sports can help:
• Improve motor and balancing skills
• Build muscle strength, coordination and flexibility
• Increase attention span, sequential memory, level of response
• Improve spatial awareness and body awareness (Kinesthetic Sense)
• Decrease secondary health complications like obesity, cholesterol
• Give an outlet for energy and helps cope with stress and anxiety
• Improvement in behavior, academics, self-confidence and build friendships
• Experience sense of accomplishment, satisfaction, taste of winning
• Result in greater motivation to perform
SPECIAL CHILDREN – SPECIFIC NEEDS
• These kids have special needs because they might need medicine, therapy, or extra help in school — stuff other kids don't typically need or only need once in a while.
• In a Physical Education context, we can say that children with Special Needs are children with same needs as their peers. The difference is that some of the students need extra support. Thus the objectives of an adapted physical activity program is not very different from a regular physical education program
• There need to run a child centric program is more pronounced in case of special children as every child may present a unique set of challenges
• Content
• Methodology
• Teacher : Student Ratio (1:10)
• The best learning / teaching scenario varies from student to student. Hence the objective of the program would be to create and maximize the least restrictive environment
SPECIAL CHILDREN – SPECIAL NEEDS
Each child is different. The coach should understand the child and how he or she plays or takes instructions. The coach needs to
know how to properly communicate and work with the child to make sports participation the positive, safe, and healthy
experience it should be.
Things to keep in mind:
Coach’s Language
“Specially abled students”
Not “Special needs students.”
Not “Disabled students.”
Not “Autistic students.”
Considerations during training
Safety first! - additional safety precautions in terms of play spaces used and props and equipment
PATIENCE!
Be Positive, Give lot of praise!
Increase size and color of props (Special props for Specially abled)
Finish the activity before student gets frustrated
Explanation of activities through demonstrations - need to break up the activities into simpler steps
Allow sufficient time for students to perform the skill
EDUSPORTS PROGRAMME FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN
THE STRUCTURE AND APPROACH
Be Cognizant of the various learning needs - Consulting with school to identify the documented difficulties of the students
Props and appropriate activities designed for the customized needs
Trained residents to handle students with Special needs
Higher Resident : Student ratio than the usual PE program to enable better attention to all students
Competitive and Inclusive activities as part of the learning plan
HOW DID IT START
Lalaji Memorial Omega International School (LMOIS) in Chennai is a school which has categorically assessed the special abilities of
a considerable amount of children and placed them in separate sections and follows a different method of teaching the regular
curriculum to them. EduSports, being an integral part of the school, serving to the physical education needs of the school, also felt
the need for extra care for the special children.
What EduSports could do for the special kids? How could they experience the joy of physical activity and play, and at the
same time reap the benefits of a structured physical education programme?
These were the questions constantly being asked by the EduSports team to themselves, and during July 2013 we found an answer
to those questions. The EduSports team in collaboration with the school coordinator Dr. Shamala and Mrs. Priti Venkatesan the
special education department head LMOIS sprang into action by giving innovative physical activities to the children at the
beginning of every day.
CASE STUDY 1 - LALAJI MEMORIAL OMEGA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, CHENNAI, INDIA
The activities were designed such that with the use of EduSports props it aimed to reduce the children’s difficulties in
attention span,
muscle tone,
crossing of the midline,
spatial sense,
hand eye coordination,
slow learning etc.
These structured sports activities had a very positive impact on the children:
The children were active throughout the day after starting off each day with these activities,
They were more energetic
They participated in the activities enthusiastically and had a lot of fun
There was improvement in learning abilities
CASE STUDY 1 - LALAJI MEMORIAL OMEGA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, CHENNAI, INDIA
IMPACT OF THE PROGRAM
Overall Fitness Improvement
CASE STUDY 1 - LALAJI MEMORIAL OMEGA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, CHENNAI, INDIA
Grade-wise Fitness Improvement
Fitness Improvement is measured based on the ‘Fitness Quotient’ which takes into account all parameters of the EduSports Fitness Assessment. In LMOIS, Chennai there was an assessment conducted on either side of this program to assess the impact of the program
WHAT THE SCHOOL HAD TO STAY?
“Since these activities are kinesthetic it improved the hand eye coordination of the children and also we could see academic
improvements in the long run, indeed this service has been very valuable for the children, we are planning to work the same way
with EduSports even the next year to bring in a holistic development for them”
– Priti Venkatesan, Head of the Special Education Department, LMOIS, Chennai
“The activities were fun and at the same time the children learned to manage their body parts, it was a wonderful thing which was
conceptualized by the EduSports team, I thoroughly enjoyed the activities as I was observing the activities when it was first
initiated, it was just amazing, these were beautiful exercises and within a month of the activities being started children showed
some improvement, the teachers handling the classes say the children know their space management better, have a better hand
eye coordination and they are better adaptive individuals, thank you EduSports”
– Dr. Shamala, Coordinator grades 1 to 7, LMOIS, Chennai
CASE STUDY 1 - LALAJI MEMORIAL OMEGA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, CHENNAI, INDIA
CASE STUDY 2 – LITTLE ANGELS, MUMBAI, INDIA
The EduSports resident has made a
huge difference with the children,
with so much involvement. He is now
as good as one of our school staff.
EduSports classes are very
enjoyable. Its one of the
favourite period of the children
in school.
Variety of exercises. Not only
physical exercises, but children
also learn to face hurdles and also
learn to be social.
The activities have been structured as
per the needs of each student. This
enables the student to perform and
hence they look forward to the class.
OVERVIEW OF KEY DELIVERABLES FOR EDUSPORTS PROGRAM
Curriculum
Resource Support
Assessments
Programme Monitoring Tools
Inclusive | Age-Appropriate Focus on Improvement of Skill & Fitness
Props & Equipment
Visibility to parents
KATHMANDU
ABU DHABI
DOHA
80+ locations in IndiaExtending the magic to Nepal and Middle East
LOOK FORWARD TO PARTNERING WITH YOU ON THIS JOURNEY OF DEVELOPING A HEALTHIER & FITTER TOMORROW!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME!
www.edusports.in | [email protected]/EduSports