Outdoor classrooms provide opportunities to every child, even those who
may have exceptionalities. From researching I came across an article published
by the Toronto Star that I found to be extremely interesting. It is about
Blaydon Public School in Toronto and how they brought together their special
needs class and their mainstream kindergarten class outdoors, and they were
amazed at what they were seeing. Below
is a very inspiring quote that I took from this article.
“The teachers say his is one example of how daily outdoor time is
changing the way their young students — including those autism and other
special needs — learn and behave”.
Through
reading this article I learned that recent studies have
found that exposure to green space can reduce symptoms for children with ADHD. As
well I learned that there is less known about how that exposure affects
children with developmental disabilities such as autism, who may have
sensory-integration dysfunction that makes them overly sensitive to sounds,
touch and activity and who are often unable to speak or communicate.
The article is titled Kids with
autism benefit from outdoor classroom and you can access it from the link
below.
As
well I tweeted this article and the video attached to it on Twitter because I think
it is a really inspiring, informative and amazing article that my fellow colleagues
could learn a lot from by reading it.
Here is a screen shot of my tweet:
If you want to take a look at my twitter account my twitter name is @haileydulberg91
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