From the Illinois Special Olympics website:
Special Olympics Illinois has started a new program called Young Athletes. Basically, the Young Athletes program is an innovative sports play program for children ages 2-7 with intellectual disabilities and their peers, designed to introduce them into the world of sports. This program will prove enormously beneficial on multiple levels for your child. First and foremost, these activities will help the children improve physically, cognitively and socially. It will also serve as an introduction to the world of Special Olympics while showing resources and support available within Special Olympics Illinois.
This program is designed to address two specific levels of play. Level 1 includes physical activities focused on developing fundamental motor tracking and eye-hand coordination. Level 2 concentrates on the application of these physical activities through a sports skills activity program and developing skills consistent with Special Olympics sports play.
We received all new play equipment from Special Olympics today and both Heather and Carol were trained in the program. We are so unbelievably psyched to get the Young Athletes program rolling as soon as possible! We were so impressed with how organized and supportive Jen from Special Olympics was - she made sure we have everything we need to provide this program for your kids. (THANK YOU JEN!)
Heather will be leading a class beginning in July so if you are interested in participating, please email us at: clublayton@gmail.com.
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