Kite flying as therapeutic experience across ability spectrum

Kite flying, when used as a designed intervention under the guidance a therapist can enhance awareness, improve fine motor development and as well as decrease anxiety and depression among children.

There are evidences that kite flying when used as a therapy leads to anatomic or neurological changes in certain areas of the brain involved in active memory, cognitive development, fine-motor development, coordination functions of limbs, learning, and emotion.

EXHIBIT: COLLAGE OF A DYSGRAPHIC CHILD UNDERGOING KITE-FLYING THERAPY

For children with special needs, the therapeutic process of demonstration, assisted action and specific hand-and-finger movements should be followed.

Here is a mini poem on kite for children with special needs and a collage of kite flying by a child

MINI-POEM

On a windy day

Kite flies up the way.

It creates sound -

Zip-zap, zip-zap.

It dances -

Flip-flap, flip-flap.

Reference

Kite-flying as a therapy for healing and health for people with special needs

Last year, I happened to attend Makar Sakranti, the kite-flying festival in a special education school in which the normal children flew kites in the presence of children with special needs.

Dr. Lalit Kishore | Jul 05, 2017, Merinew