Using games as teaching tool with differently abled children.

Abstract

With the growing sense of groupness in the social development of primary children, games have an important role in the physical education program. But with our growing understanding of the value of free play in an arranged environment. It is also good developing sturdy, skillful bodies, and the value of movement exploration and rhythms in helping children discover the range flexibility of their own body movements, games have lot of importance in the total education program than before. The purpose of this paper is to present characteristics of games, How to choose and types of games that might be useful for the extension educator working with student trainees and teachers of children with special needs or even with parents and siblings of the child or an organization for children having special needs in the community. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)