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Play is vital to your child's well-being! Moving Therapy to the Gym: The Benefits of Gymnastics for Children with Autism | ASHAsphere. Photo by kawanet The sport of gymnastics can provide children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) access to a differentiated approach, which potentially can create a model program to meet each child’s individual needs in a unique and effective manner.
Gymnastics is a sport that provides an enriching environment filled with opportunities for sharpening the mind by stimulating the brain, fostering social skills, and strengthening gross and fine motor skills, while providing children with ASD an alternative method for learning and developing new skills. Concentration or focus is required in each skill that is executed in the sport of gymnastics.
Learning to focus in the gym can allow for increased attention to tasks outside of the sport of gymnastics. As children with ASD continue to develop their social skills, they transition from home to school settings and other environments (e.g. gym) where they begin to experience a wide range of opportunities to communicate. References.