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Topic of the Month August: Recreational Activities for Handicapped Kids

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Topic of the Month August: Recreational Activities for Handicapped Kids

Painting, crafting and playing football – for children with handicaps it is often not that easy to do all these things. However, something is going on. Read more about offers for kids with intellectual disabilities and accessible playgrounds for wheelchair users in the Topic of the Month August: Recreational Activities for Handicapped Kids.

On many playgrounds children with wheelchairs can only watch others play because they are not accessible. However, there are better ways. In Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, Germany, committed citizens managed to build an amusement park where disabled and able-bodied kids can play together.
- Kids just Wanna Have Fun

Cooking, crafting, swimming and cinema: Children with intellectual disabilities have just as much fun doing free time activities as able-bodies ones. However, there are not just as many facilities. The German organisation Lebenshilfe tries to change this. The social pedagogue Severine Höing from the Lebenshilfe talked with REHACARE.de about how organisations and other institutions for kids can open themselves for new offers.
- „In Münster a lot is going on“, Severine Höing about recreation offers for children with intellectual disability

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