MOVE™

Justin attends the Children’s Learning Center in Roosevelt, New York, on Long Island. He is now 19 years old, and due to the implementation of the MOVE™ Program Justin has gained significant mobility skills in the past two years. Prior to MOVE™, Justin typically sat in his classroom chair with both feet up on the chair with his head down between his legs. He was unmotivated to move out...

Reuven is 16 and attends The Children’s Learning Center at the Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County where he participates in the MOVE™ Program. Reuven is non-ambulatory and non-verbal. He sits primarily in an adapted wheelchair equipped with a seatbelt, chest harness, foot straps, and a lap tray. While in school, as part of the MOVE™ Program, Reuven practices sitting in a typical...

Inclusion is not easy. It takes commitment, creativity and time to help every student learn and participate. So congratulations to the wonderful teachers and staff at the Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE) who realized that with summer just around the corner it was time to take inclusion outdoors as well. The result? A first ever inclusive Technology and Recreation camp at nearby Sly Park...

Aulanda is a Special Education Teacher at Eisenhower Elementary School in Dubuque, IA and MOVE Site Trainer for Dubuque Community Schools. The Dubuque Community School District has used the MOVE (Mobility Opportunities Via Education) Curriculum for the past three years. We have embraced the many new approaches of this curriculum and applied them to our current philosophy. After adopting the...

Barbara is a physical therapist serving the Gratiot-Isabella RESD in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Ashley, sixteen years old, is one of my students at the Gratiot Isabella Regional Education Service District. She sustained a closed head injury at eleven months of age, and was in a coma for ten days. Her parents were told not to expect her to see, hear, speak or move. Ashley enrolled with us in 1993...