Healing fitness room for the boarding school children

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The children with dementia, mild mental retardation, schizophrenia live in the Krasnorechensk special boarding school. For such special children, it is necessary to develop strength, agility, endurance, coordination of movements.

The Healing Fitness room, which lacks in the boarding school, will allow to conduct physical exercises and rhythms to normalize the metabolic process, prevent musculoskeletal system deformation, growth retardation and prevent the development of scoliosis. Classes will be held in group (4-6) and individually. The duration of classes is 25-45 minutes,  while of rhythmic classes is 40-45 minutes.

The necessity to equip the gymnastics room and rhythm cabinet consists of the correction and gymnastics of children with developmental delays. Since children have a state of inhibition or incomplete mental development, which is characterized by disorders in the field of cognitive abilities, speech, motor and social capabilities.

Mentally retarded children have a lag in growth, in weight, from the accepted age norm: in physique, proportions, violated posture. Mentally retarded children need a metered load, an individual approach, they cannot perform gymnastic exercises requiring great motor efforts, as this leads to excitation of the nervous system.