M.O.V.E.®
Mobility Opportunities via Education
What is MOVE®?
MOVE® helps learners with physical disabilities acquire increased independence in sitting, standing, and walking - to experience, learn and gain more mobility, better health and enhanced personal dignity. MOVE® produces results through hard work, repetition and dedication.
The MOVE® programme was introduced to the school in 1999. We aim to have all staff trained as movement educators. Individual MOVE® programmes are designed by our transdisciplinary team for any student who is not independent in their mobility.
MOVE® is...
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a philosophy
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functional, useful, measurable progress for setting goal
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team work - 'it takes a team to move'
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a programmes that offers assistance for people with a singular disability to complex disabilities
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a programme that changes ways of thinking and changes attitudes
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a structured programme based on assessment and accountability
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a way of developing skills beyond the highest skills the student already has
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a way of life used throughout the day, used anywhere in an activity
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underpins the school curriculum and activities, rather than be a timetabled period of teaching and learning. Throughout the day students naturally practice specific motor skills whilst engaged in age appropriate educational or leisure activities
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cost -efficient and effective
MOVE® Model Site
Sir Keith Park School is a designated
MOVE® model site. A MOVE® Model
Site is an example of MOVE® in operation.
Parents, teachers, therapists, administrators or anyone else can visit a MOVE® Model Site to observe the students using MOVE® programmes, talk to staff and ask questions, and learn how to introduce MOVE® in their own home / school / community facility.
