Special Education Home Field Trips - White Water Rafting
Did you know there are white water rafting programs for special education kids, autistic kids, and kids with down-syndrome? Did you know that one ride down the river for these kids will be an event of a lifetime? Think about it. Best of all when kids of this nature experience something so radically different and new, it causes them use parts of their brains that have yet to be used much. Yes, that's right it helps with brain development, just as if they were learning how to ride a bike, sing a song, or learn how to do a new skill. Okay so, let's talk. Some folks involved in providing such trips down the river for special needs kids tell of how it becomes a life changing experience, so to do the parents. Occasionally, it's almost to the point that there was "little Junior before the white water rafting trip, and little Junior after." Some parents note the difference is that profound - to which I say; wow. When I first heard about all this, I thought to myself, no...