Yoga Activities to Increase Literacy Skills
Yoga activities are a fun way to incorporate literacy skills for students who are blind, deafblind, visually impaired, Autistic, including those with multiple disabilities or other special needs.
Yoga activities are a fun way to incorporate literacy skills for students who are blind, deafblind, visually impaired, Autistic, including those with multiple disabilities or other special needs.
Guidelines on how to get started doing yoga with children who are blind or visually impaired
Yoga activities can help students to develop improved narrative language through a variety of imaginative and meditative stories and mantras which are inspired by the movements, characters and sounds.
Yoga offers many opportunities to support language & literacy development with students who are blind, visually impaired, deafblind, or autistic
Yoga Stories and Activities include pretend stories and meditations, as well as asanas (body postures or poses), routines, and mantras (or rhythmic chants)
Recommended resources for Playing with Words special collection.
I am the author of the book Yoga For Children with Visual and Multiple Impairments: Fun Movement Activities Inspired by Yoga.
Co-creating imaginative stories with students who have Autism Spectrum Disorder and Visual Impairment (ASDVI) can promote both writing skills and social interaction.
Affirmation Mantras can teach students ways to prepare themselves emotionally when faced with difficult social situations, as self-regulation tools.
The purpose of the Row Boat Ride story is to introduce the emotion meter, which will later be used by the student and adult to identify and describe their own and others’ levels of emotion.