Helping Children With Disabilities Get "Fit For The Future"
Izvor: KiWi
A fresh plan might help improve the lives of kids with disabilities-and help them better control their health.
Sixty-six percent of adults with disabilities aren't really satisfied with their lives; 78 percent are unemployed; and they have increased health problems, including greater susceptibility to additional health issues.
But, a fresh DVD might help increase the future outlook for young ones with disabilities. Named "Fit for the Future," it addresses two of the very most important problems facing individuals with disabilities today: health and work. The DVD premiered by Shriners Hospitals for Children and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
"Fit for the Future" is meant to be a special, revolutionary program that fills a void in available supplies. The DVD includes three 20- to 30-minute, hopeful, kid-friendly exercise routines-stretching, conditioning and stamina-that can be achieved seated or standing. The exercise percentage of the DVD characteristics practitioners and patients from the Tampa Shriners Hospital, in addition to FBI employees from Tampa, Fla., Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va.
This system also contains educational parts on the Shriners fraternity, Shriners Hospitals for Children and the FBI.
The DVD features a 2nd, equally crucial message of possible future employment. Statistically, people with disabilities have the best unemployment rate (around 70 per cent). Learning that the FBI specifically wants to retain people with disabilities is actually a tremendous source of inspiration for kids with disabilities.
While designed primarily for kids with orthopaedic problems, "Fit for the Future" is definitely an exercise program nearly everyone can use. The exercise sessions highlighted are general and simple enough to provide a starting point for a fitness program.
There is an increasing understanding of the value of giving exercise opportunities if you have disabilities. "We believe that a course offering children with disabilities, in addition to the powerful presence of an Agent as both role and partner model, might help encourage children with disabilities to exercise," said Peter Armstrong, M.D., medical affairs manager for Shriners Hospitals for Children.
Credit for the concept belongs to FBI Special Agent James Knights, who is also a Shriner. Knights, of Pittsburgh, Pa., wanted to develop a way with disabilities realize that should they worked hard and kept as strong and healthy as you are able to, their future could add a career in the FBI to help kiddies.
To learn more on Shriners' network of 22 hospitals offering health care and services to young ones with orthopaedic problems, burns off, spinal-cord injuries, and cleft lip and palate at no charge, write to Shriners International Headquarters, 2900 Rocky Point Dr., Tampa, FL 33607 or visit www.shrinershq.org. All services are supplied at free to kids under 18, irrespective of economic need or relation to a url Shriner.
