Children with Special Needs
Status-Compatible Response
Goals
- Empowerment – establishing and strengthening self-belief and accordingly the self-esteem
- Relevance – training in the reality situations relevant to the training group and in personalization by mediating the situation
- Situation-compatible response – Improving the ability to respond appropriately to changing situations by building a toolbox of responses based on understanding situations
- Calming and venting – Giving legitimacy and emotional validity
curriculum
- Development of life skills (with an emphasis on regulation, dealing with frustration, problem solving and accepting the other)
- Customized self-defense skills – Physical movement, cognitive and emotional
- Self-Confidence – use of voice, gaze, body language and posture
- protectiveness – Dangers in the natural environment, body boundaries and understanding when something is “unpleasant”
- Understanding situations – the ability to set boundaries. How and when in accordance with the personal resources of the trainee
- Decision Making
- Appropriate response
- Personal interpretation and the direct connection to understanding situations
- physical education – Development of the five components of physical fitness, with an emphasis on the critical components for the age group and physical coping abilities