Welcome to our workshop series and continuing to watch and follow how to
help educate individuals with autism or on the autism spectrum
Anthony and I are here to teach you about posture and give you
a couple posture related activities, the definition of postures
any position in which the body resides and
we try to educate our children or adults
because posture is important everyday life
and Anthony is gonna take you through
two exercises, we're gonna do hurdles and then we're gonna do
a foam rollers hip extension and
is there anything you want to say about posture? How it's important, how it's part of your everyday life?
No? Alright. I will tell you this though
Anthony, when he first started, one of the ways that
I was helping him engage in better posture
was I would relate things to Batman or Superman
because that's what motivates him and
he would stand up straight and I would say show me that Batman chest or show me
that Superman chest and he would automatically put himself
in that position and we've talked about this before in other
clips and other series, but you have to find a motivator within your children
on the students are working so again that one technique that Anthony
understood better posture, he's gonna show you that as now he goes through
the hurdles. Okay? We're gonna start with
walking over the hurdles. Alright you want to take them through it? Alright
Now you see we still have a lot of visuals
We have arrows that your students may need even if you don't
think they do you
it's really important for you to lay those things or provide those
visual supports because that can help
in those times when we can't plan for them or there may be a sensory overload like in a gym
like we're at
or even at home having those supports in place
really help them have success
so even if you don't think you need it
just put it there because it could come into play. Alright Anthony take me through it
tell us what you're doing and
why. I am walking over. So you want to get your knees
up high, as high as you can
not too high, you don't want to break anything
And you're just going to walk through and walk backwards. Sure. Just like this
and one thing that Anthony and I talked about or you should talk about with
your students, or your children, is that again identifying between right and left
so he started with his left, now Anthony can you
reach going over with you right? Excellent
it always gives you an opportunity to educate
see if cognitively they're understanding what's going on no matter what age
Now go ahead back with your right
There we go, nice job
If you make a mistake don't worry about it you can always fix it
And that's a brilliant point
If what you're doing with your students for your children or your adults
and if it doesn't look like the way Anthony just demonstrated
or you as the instructor, or trainer, or coach
it's fine we want to get them moving
movement movement movement is key. Okay? We can work on that coaching part later
Anthony, way to point that out I love it. Okay so then next
now we worked dynamic that's flexibility, posture related activities, he went over
now we're going to go
under. Okay? Anthony I'm going to have you-yup. Thank you. Perfect, right there
Okay this one. I'll get this one. Right there bud
Now you'll see
We're adjusting these hurdles but little things like this like adjusting where the feet and
you them pointed
gives them a way to identify where you want to go. All right go for it buddy
A lot of
individuals, young or old on the autism spectrum
have poor spatial and body awareness and I think this is a great activity
that you can view with your students, with your children. Come back
Notice he want starting to his right
leading with the right leg. Now he's coming back leading with the left
getting flexibility in his hips. Awesome job Anthony.
Remember our students are sitting
throughout the day, they're at computers
and we need to keep their hips and body mobile
over hurdles, under hurdles great activity doesn't really involve a lot of
equipment
you can even attach from
one wall to the or have a student hold a piece of rope
kind of like Rocky, right? Going up and under okay so
be creative with ways to help teach
your students you children posture activities
and then lastly we're gonna do
the hip extension with the foam roller
Okay. Working the glutes and hamstrings
right? Which helps really prevent low
back pain we want to do this for all of our students so this is one of the
first exercises I will teach children or adults that I work with, but Anthony's gonna take it one level higher
one level higher of course. You want to show them?
So he sits there, yup, good, awesome
now again going back to those visuals Anthony kinda doesn't
really need those visual supports but some days when I come into his home or
work with him
we do go through his schedule or I have him
pick the number to do or
you guys same thing with your students to your kid so
and he's already did about 10 of them, which is great
but go ahead Anthony do a couple more. You may just use a whiteboard
like this to do a set of 10
right. So we did that, nice job and let's just do
one more set of 12. Can you do another 12?
Where do you feel that working? Your lower back
And?
I forget. What's this? My glutes.
very good okay. Glutes, hamstrings
Nice job. And then once your child or student is done
go ahead and wipe it off
visual cues very important to continue to always use
not just an exercise setting but also even in a classroom setting
Nice job Anthony. You got anything else you'd like to share with anyone?
Alright we will see you guys next time thank you again for watching him
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