This set of beautifully illustrated full-colour cards, together with a detailed instruction booklet, will be a valuable tool for all professionals and parents facilitating the rehabilitation of children with neurological disorders and general developmental disabilities. The activities address the development of mobility and co-ordination skills, while also promoting independence and self-esteem, using a fun approach that will be motivating for children.The cards are grouped into nine categories: sitting, standing, walking, floor ladder, stair, jumping, rolling and 'extra' challenges, as well as free choice cards, and they progress in difficulty, allowing facilitators to gradually build on the child's abilities. The instruction booklet offers detailed information on each exercise, which will help facilitators to plan for and extend activities according to the child's skills. Information on the health benefits of these activities for children and practical guidance on how to use the materials creatively demonstrates how the activities can be made more flexible in order to meet the various needs of different children.The Challenge Me! cards will make mobility training enjoyable for both children and their facilitators, and are suitable for use by anyone working to improve children's mobility skills, including physiotherapists, occupational therapists, teachers and teaching assistants, conductive education practitioners and parents.
(Instruction booklet): Introduction. About the Challenge Me! Mobility Activity Cards. Guidance for working with the cards. Equipment and resources. Facilitation. Motivation. Instructions for each card. About the illustrator. About the author.
The Challenge Me! Mobility Activity Cards address mobility, balance coordination, spatial awareness, trunk control, transferring skills, gross motor skills, flexibility, adaptability, safety, and awareness, and independence. Practicing these skills can also have a knock on effect on self-esteem and confidence.'
'The Challenge Me! Mobility Activity cards provide easy and fun ways to practice physical skills. They would be particularly good for parents to use at home and for children to use at lunch and play times at school. They could help facilitate social games as the activities are accessible at a variety of levels. Parents and Professionals will get lots of ideas for games and activities that help promoted mobility skills from these activity cards.
