Are outdoor classes inclusive?


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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