CSUN Center of Achievement - Adapted Aquatics for Children & Sensory Motor Program

Adapted Aquatics for Children is geared toward children with special needs. Each child is paired with a CSUN undergraduate kinesiology student. The CSUN students work with the children on basic swimming skills, as well as gait and balance. The water’s buoyancy provides the children with an ability to in ways they aren’t able to outside of the pool.
The land-based Sensory Motor Program is an inclusive program for children with and without disabilities. That program focuses on fundamental motor skills. Undergraduate kinesiology students develop games and other play scenarios to encourage the development of motor skills in the children they work with. Todd noted that for many of the children with disabilities in the land-based program, the class may be first time they have played with typical developing children outside of their families.
Todd works with the CSUN students in both programs to develop the goals they want to achieve with their young clients.
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Filmed by: Richard Chambers, Rachael Howery, Jonathan Wong
Edited by: Rachael Howery
Music by: The Music Bed (licensed with permission)
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