verbALL: Inclusive Physical Activity for Tweens

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verbALL Inclusive Physical Activity for Tweens

• Midwest Symposium on Therapeutic Recreation and
  Adapted Physical Activity
• April 22, 2007

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PresentersIllinois State University

• Sandra Klitzing
• Brooke Fanning
• Michelle Mohler
• Jamie Petteys

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Overview

• National Health Agenda
• Health Statistics
• Programs for Youth with Disabilities
• Verb
• Design verbALL activities
• Closing
• Play Every Day

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National Health Agenda

• U.S. Public Health Service focus was on national
  health
• 1979 Healthy People The Surgeon Generals
  Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
• Goal make US nation of healthy people by 1990

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National Health Agenda

• 1990 Healthy People 2000
• Strategy to increase health by end of century
• Did not have a chapter specifically establishing
  health objectives for people with disabilities
• Some objectives in the document did target people
  with disabilities
• A review showed none of these objectives were met

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National Health Agenda

• 2000 Healthy People 2010
• Although limited data, discrepancies between
  people with and without disabilities noted
• Excess weight
• Reduced physical activity
• Increased stress
• Changing models increased awareness that people
  with disabilities can be healthy

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National Health Agenda

• Healthy People 2010
• Goal Promote the health of people with
  disabilities, prevent secondary conditions, and
  eliminate disparities between people with and
  without disabilities in the U.S. population.

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National Health Agenda

• Healthy People 2010
• Specific chapter that focuses on disability and
  secondary conditions
• Reduce proportion of youth with disabilities who
  are reportedly sad, unhappy, or depressed
• Reduce proportion of adults with disabilities who
  report feelings, such as sadness, unhappiness, or
  depression, that prevent them from being active

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National Health Agenda

• Healthy People 2010
• Also collect data from other chapters/focus areas
• Increase healthy weight in adults
• Decrease overweight or obesity in children
  adolescents
• Increase adolescents adults who engage in
  regular physical activity

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Why is a national agenda needed? Why include
people with disabilities in the national agenda?

• 54 million people in US with disabilities (1/5)
• 7.8 of youth under 15 years have a disability
• Surgeon General Report

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Adult Health Statistics

• Obesity
• 34 adults with disabilities
• 21 adults without disabilities
• National Center on Birth Defects Developmental
  Disabilities, 2006
• 75 of female adults with developmental
  disabilities are obese
• NCPAD

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Adult Health Statistics

• No leisure time physical activity
• 53 adults with disabilities
• 34 adults without disabilities
• CDC, 2005
• 25 of adults with disabilities did not engage in
  physical activity in past 30 days
• Inclusive Fitness Coalition
• Most leisure of adults with developmental
  disabilities consists of sedentary activities
  like watching TV or listening to radio
• NCPAD

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Adult Health Statistics

• Adults with disabilities have higher incidences
  of obesity lower physical activity rates, yet
  are at risk for same chronic conditions as adults
  who do not have disabilities
• Fitness behaviors learned in childhood often
  impact adult fitness involvement

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Youth Health Statistics

• Todays youth are considered the most inactive
  generation in history
• This is caused in part by reduced school PE
  programs
• Overweight (in general)
• 30 (6-11 yrs.) overweight
• 30 (12-19 yrs.) overweight
• Strong predictor of being overweight as adult
• American Obesity Association

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Youth Health Statistics

• Overweight in youth connected with
• Asthma
• Diabetes (type 2)
• Hypertension
• Sleep apnea
• American Obesity Association

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Youth Health Statistics

• 75 of children with physical disabilities in US
  do not participate in PE or community physical
  activity programs
• Paralympic Academy
• Youth with disabilities may be in adapted PE
  classes, but classes are brief and rarely teach
  skills
• If in inclusive PE, they often sit on the
  sidelines and are not actively engaged
• NCPAD

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Youth Health Statistics

• Only activity children with physical disabilities
  outscore peers without disabilities is watching
  TV more than 4 hours/day
• 39 vs. 13
• Fitness levels of children with developmental
  disabilities are poor
• NCPAD

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Youth Health Statistics

• Physical activity recommendations for youth age
  5-12
• 60 minutes or more of moderate to vigorous
  physical activity daily that is developmentally
  appropriate, enjoyable, and involves a variety of
  activities
• Strong et al., 2005

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Programs for Youth with Disabilities

• Teens in NC identified keys to a healthy
  lifestyle
• Physical activity
• Exercise
• Social activities
• They also identified barriers to a healthy
  lifestyle
• Sedentary lifestyle
• Limited opportunities for physical activity
• Inaccessible facilities/environments

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Programs for Youth with Disabilities

• Perceived needs for a healthy lifestyle
• Inclusive social recreational opportunities
• Wanted community-based programs
• Youth with Disabilities in NC, 2000
• Not just inclusive as an after thought, but
  universally accessible

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Programs for Youth with Disabilities

• Programs for youth, not specifically mention
  youth with disabilities
• Kids Walk-to-School
• National Trail Day
• Camp Fusion

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Programs for Youth with Disabilities

• Programs specifically for youth with disabilities
• BlazeSports
• Special Olympics

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Programs for Youth with Disabilities

• I Can Do It, You Can Do It
• Nationwide program to support physical activity
  for children youth with disabilities
• U.S. Dept of Health Human Services
• Launched 5/2004
• Ends 5/2007
• Partner organizations will bring together
  physical fitness mentors with youth who have
  disabilities

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What do these programs have in common?

• Traditional sport or exercise programs

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Are there any programs that are not just sports
or exercise?

• YES!!!!

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VERB

• Social marketing campaign
• Coordinated by U.S. Department of Health and
  Human Services Centers for Disease Control and
  Prevention (CDC)
• Encouraged tweens (age 9-13) to be physically
  active
• Designed to be multicultural
• Make physical activity cool fun

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VERB

• Used paid advertising, school and community
  promotions and Internet
• 5 year strategic program
• 335 million
• After 1 yr. 74 of tweens knew about VERB
  increased physical activity
• Only physical activity program ever found
  effective
• Tweens with disabilities almost absent
• Ended in 9/2006
• Can still get some materials from NRPA Step Up to
  Health training

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Key Components of VERB

• VERB is about.
• Being a kid
• Having fun being with friends
• Exploring discovering
• Find new VERBs
• Find your own VERBs
• Encouraging trial praise
• Is not about abstract constructs like fighting
  obesity, preventing long-term chronic disease
  prevention, or even exercise

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Key Components of VERB

• Messages that appeal to all youth
• High low activity levels
• Multicultural
• (With without disabilities)
• Keep active without keeping score
• No loser activities
• Competition against self
• Use incentives for reaching goals
• Fun contests
• Activity recorders

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VERB Programs

• Special Events
• Longest Day of Play (Play All Day)
• Extra Hour for Extra Action Day
• Family Skate Night
• Activity Zone Festival
• Cultural Festivals
• Contests
• Make Every Move Count (Pedometers)
• Move It to Groove It
• Treasure Hunt (look for VERBS in community)
• Break Guinness World Record

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VERB Programs

• Field trips to places where tweens can be active
• Map making activity
• Map of free/inexpensive physical activity
  locations
• Field trip to these locations
• Celebrities/college athletes

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VERB Programs

• VERB Yellowball
• Leader design
• Youre It Card
• Kids design game for day
• Blog how play with the Yellowball

• VERB Make It Up
• Leader design
• Hip-hop scotch
• Sponge tag
• Kids design game

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VERB Programs

• VERB Crossover
• Combine basketball with any other sport or
  activity
• Basketball Hoop Hoop It Up
• Brackets and vote on favorite activities

• VERB Play Without Borders
• Learn games that are played around the world

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VERB Programs

• VERB Appreciation Day
• Put spotlight on a new activity
• Bike-a-thon Day
• Volleyball Day
• Hip Hop Dance Day
• Karate Day

• Scorecard Campaign
• Scorecard with 24 squares
• Each square 1 hr.
• Community partners offer free activities
• Grand finale party with prizes

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VERB Programs

• VERB Anytime Doubletime
• Take 2 VERBs, make 1 game
• HotVolley
• BirdieBall
• DanceTag
• YOUR TURN
• Remember should be verbALL

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Closing

• Very important to get tweens with disabilities
  active
• Remember concepts of VERB when designing verbALL
  activities or programs
• Especially fun friends
• Questions/answers

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Brand New InitiativePlay Every Day

• Partnership between YMCA of USA, National Assoc.
  of Sport Physical Education, NRPA
• Ensure youth has at least 60 minutes of physical
  activity every day
• Play Every Day Act, 2/15/07
• Sen. Harkin Sen. Clinton

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Resources

• Healthy People 2010
• http//www.healthypeople.gov/
• National Center on Physical Activity and
  Disability (NCPAD)
• http//www.ncpad.org/

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Resources

• I Can Do It, You Can Do It
• http//www.hhs.gov/od/physicalfitness.html
• The Presidents Challenge
• http//www.presidentschallenge.org/

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Resources

• VERB
• http//www.cdc.gov/youthcampaign/
• http//www.verbnow.com/
• Play Every Day
• http//www.nrpa.org/content/default.aspx?document
  Id5324

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For copies of presentation

• http//www.ilstu.edu/slklitz/