Open AccessLudotherapy Through Basketball - a Means of Kinetic Stimulation for Children with Intellectual Disabilities
Author(s) -
Nicoleta Leonte,
Ofelia Popescu
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
gymnasium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2344-5645
pISSN - 1453-0201
DOI - 10.29081/gsjesh.2018.19.1s.01
Subject(s) - basketball , motor skill , psychology , perception , balance (ability) , cognition , intellectual disability , cognitive psychology , laterality , physical medicine and rehabilitation , developmental psychology , neuroscience , medicine , archaeology , psychiatry , history
Motor education through basketball contributes to the development of manual coordination, balance and laterality, organization in space and time, the latter focusing on the body scheme that children are primarily concerned with at primary school. Practicing, by using the simple means of basketball, improves the primordial sensory skills; sophisticated and global motor activities improve the basic motor skills and facilitate the perceptual-motor integration, which is the starting point for the cognitive functions. This paper aims at designing and implementing a kinetic program of stimulation using simple means of basketball in order to improve the balance and laterality of children with intellectual disabilities. The results obtained revealed the efficientization of the fundamental motor skills (locomotion, handling and stability) of the research subjects.