Inclusive Play Model Essay

“Out of 1,000 children between the ages of 3 and 21 roughly about 85 will have these disabilities: physical, sensory, multiple disabilities, chronic health impairment, social/emotional, communication and cognitive”. That is just to give you a picture of how many children go through problems and can be limited to activity because of their disabilities. There are 5 elements of inclusive play and they are physical, social, sensory, communication and cognitive. With that in mind I made sure to try and include something for each disability in my model for the kids to still be able to have fun with the rest of their friends. I chose to create a four corners inclusive model to help promote equality because a square has four corners which are all equal.
This corner really tries to help the parents out on take some stress of their shoulders by providing community recreation activities and information on services available for recreation on after-school programs. I feel like that is a really important corner because if a parent doesn’t really know about information to help their child be included in recreation, their child is limited in inclusive recreation at an early stage. The third corner of the model is about recreation agencies and service to community agencies. This corner involves inclusion training for staff to be properly equipped to handle the children. How to coordinate the leisure staff and the equipment needed in recreation agencies that the children will need. Lastly it involves locating existing inclusion resources within the community because another agency may be better equipped with something that you may want to use for your children, so that is an important aspect to focus on. The last and fourth corner of the model is about referral agencies and partnership with referral agencies. This corner explains how partnership with agencies can help fund and facilitate the inclusion experience for the