For a child who doesn\u2019t walk or talk and is also blind, play time with other children can be a problem. Luckily for Nick Jones, Luhr Elementary has come up with a way to keep him participating, even in gym class.<\/p>\n
<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nGym time at Luhr Elementary means everyone participates including Nick Jones and his classmates from Joanne Will\u2019s special needs group.<\/p>\nWills says, \u201cWe all kind of help the kids hold up their arms and put their arms down. That\u2019s about the most that Nick can do \u2018cause he can\u2019t walk so he stays in his chair.. \u201d<\/p>\nEven from his chair, Nick gets to take part. Instructor Brandon Thomas tailors these lessons to the children\u2019s capabilities.<\/p>\nThomas says, \u201cWhen we\u2019re working with special needs children we try to really focus on getting on their level and building them up from there.”<\/p>\nMs. Wills says that approach is helping all the children in her class. And the benefits go beyond physical exercise for Nick.<\/p>\n\u201cI think it\u2019s helped him a lot because I think he\u2019s been able to get motivated. I think he feels good, feels energized that he\u2019s with all of us. It\u2019s a social thing for him. And he loves being with other kids and being social.\u201d<\/p>\nOn this day Nick reached a milestone. With a little help he got to break his first board.<\/p>\nNick is in the fifth grade which means that this is his last year at Luhr Elementary. Next year he\u2019ll move on to middle school.<\/p>\nThe 58th annual WHAS Crusade for Children is coming up June 4-5, 2011 on WHAS11 and WHAS Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a child who doesn\u2019t walk or talk and is also blind, play time with other children can be a problem. Luckily for Nick Jones, Luhr Elementary has come up with a way to keep him participating, even in gym class. Gym time at Luhr…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Gym time at Luhr Elementary means everyone participates including Nick Jones and his classmates from Joanne Will\u2019s special needs group.<\/p>\n
Wills says, \u201cWe all kind of help the kids hold up their arms and put their arms down. That\u2019s about the most that Nick can do \u2018cause he can\u2019t walk so he stays in his chair.. \u201d<\/p>\n
Even from his chair, Nick gets to take part. Instructor Brandon Thomas tailors these lessons to the children\u2019s capabilities.<\/p>\n
Thomas says, \u201cWhen we\u2019re working with special needs children we try to really focus on getting on their level and building them up from there.”<\/p>\n
Ms. Wills says that approach is helping all the children in her class. And the benefits go beyond physical exercise for Nick.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s helped him a lot because I think he\u2019s been able to get motivated. I think he feels good, feels energized that he\u2019s with all of us. It\u2019s a social thing for him. And he loves being with other kids and being social.\u201d<\/p>\n
On this day Nick reached a milestone. With a little help he got to break his first board.<\/p>\n
Nick is in the fifth grade which means that this is his last year at Luhr Elementary. Next year he\u2019ll move on to middle school.<\/p>\n
The 58th annual WHAS Crusade for Children is coming up June 4-5, 2011 on WHAS11 and WHAS Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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