WHEE! Wii! We!

Thanks to WHEE! grant from the Buddy Learning Center, highchool students in our self-contained special education program will be using the Wii gaming system to promote fitness, and increase physical as well as social skills. We are excited to be one of 15 schools out of 200 applicants selected to receive this grant! Students with limited physical access to their environmnent are able to play a piano, race a care, bowl or play baseball with a slight gesture when the Wii interactive remote is secured in their hand. Students with Autism often have limited social skills. Use of the Wii interactive games are visually stimulating and promote turn-taking, waiting for turns, sharing, and good sportmanship. We will be collecting data and providing results to the Buddy Project (www.btlc.org). Stay tuned for results of this project over the next school year.