Exceptional Needs Today Issue 5

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STAYING FIT AND HEALTHY

Nature Notes We’re Going On a…

Scavenger Hunt!

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By Amy Wagenfeld, PhD, OTR/L, SCEM, EDAC, FAOTA

appy September wishes! In honor of the magnificent transition between summer and fall, I thought it would be helpful to talk about more ways to get outside to learn, move, enrich our senses, socialize, and most of all, have fun. How can we achieve all of that? A scavenger hunt! A scavenger hunt

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invites participants to use their powers of observation to find things inside or outside the home and in community settings. While the typical way to conduct a scavenger hunt is to give each child or team a written list of items to find, that might not work well for all participants. In this installment of Nature


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