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Sports progress without boundaries

2021-12-01T03:17:54.160Z


"Exercise" is fair. Regardless of age, gender, disability or ability, as long as you are willing to exercise, exercise will bring you physical and mental health. However, studies have shown that the level of physical activity of disabled children and adolescents is generally


"Exercise" is fair. Regardless of age, gender, disability or ability, as long as you are willing to exercise, exercise will bring you physical and mental health.

However, studies have shown that the level of physical activity of disabled children and adolescents is generally low. The reason is that many parents believe that disabled children have too many restrictions to participate in sports, and the process will be relatively difficult, making them discouraged from sports.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust Fund donated to the "Jockey Club "Sports Without Boundaries" Youth Wing Flying Plan" launched by the Department of Sports Science of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Through home-school cooperation, disabled students can participate in more sports activities and improve Their physical and mental health.


Home-school cooperation dare to exercise

14-year-old Yuyu (pseudonym) suffered from a moderate intellectual disability since she was a child. She was studying at the Po Leung Kuk Yu Li Mufen Memorial School in Secondary Two. She loves lawn bowls and represented Hong Kong to Abu Dhabi, UAE, to participate in the "2019 Special Olympics Summer World Games" "He even won the bronze medal in three lawn bowls events.

In June last year, Yuyu participated in the "Jockey Club "Sports Without Boundaries" Youth Wing Soaring Plan" through the school, and was exposed to gymnastics and potball for the first time.

Yuyu’s father, Mr. Gu, has a very positive attitude towards his daughter’s participation in sports: "Yuyu is a young girl in the family. I let her learn swimming and play table tennis with her two sisters since she was a child. Sometimes she would go hiking together on holidays. Training her balance ability, besides becoming healthy, the whole person is also more confident and happy, and the experience of participating alone also makes her more independent. Exercise allows her to grow in all aspects, why not do it?" Gu The husband said that in response to the epidemic, the school reduced the number of face-to-face classes at school. Yuyu’s daily exercise volume has been greatly reduced. Fortunately, for the planned "Healthy Daily Fitness Exercise Series", Yuyu can use online exercise demonstration videos at home. Exercise to maintain physical and mental health.

Yuyu’s father, Mr. Gu (left), said that doing exercises with his daughter can also enhance the parent-child relationship in the process of communication and cooperation.

Teach students in accordance with their aptitude and get out of the limit

Huang Huikang, a physical education teacher who has taught in special schools for 12 years, said that exercise is equally important to everyone, and even more important to special students. It is a great help to improve the ability to take care of yourself and communicate with others.” The project is to provide schools with ground kettle ball equipment. Teacher Huang pointed out that the ground kettle ball can train students' hand muscle endurance, balance, concentration and sense of distance. Many students are like yoga. Yu is very interested in learning new sports.

Due to the different abilities and physical conditions of special students, Mr. Huang will make adjustments in class design according to individual students’ conditions and abilities. For example, learning to play football will be divided into advanced group and elementary group, with better balance and comprehension skills. The advanced group will learn to swipe the ball with the inside of the foot, and the beginner group can kick the ball.

The "Healthy Daily Life Fitness Exercise Series" short film demonstrated and explained by professional coaches encourages disabled schoolchildren and parents to make good use of online resources for physical fitness exercises at home.

In addition to fitness gymnastics and potball for yoga exercises, new adaptive sports planned to be introduced include seated volleyball and blind gateball, which will increase students' interest and opportunities in participating in different sports.

The project focuses on the four types of special schools for the visually impaired, hearing impaired, physically disabled, and mild and moderately mentally disabled in Hong Kong. Since its implementation in 2019, a total of 25 local special schools have participated, and more than 5,000 children and parents are expected And teachers benefited by implementing the concept of "Sports Without Boundaries".

When students wear the optical armband of the heart rate monitoring system provided by the plan, the teacher can use the system to know whether each student's exercise heart rate is up to the standard, and then adjust the amount of exercise.

*Information provided by "Junbu Life"

Source: hk1

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