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Skill mastery is Paula's goal and basic movement, sport, outdoor education, challenge and paddling my mediums.
Combining these mediums, Paula provides children and adults with disabilities the support they need to develop life long leisure skills. Leisure skills are necessary to enable individuals with disabilities to develop friendships in the community and at work.
Funcercise provides children and adults the specialized movement experiences that enable them to develop socially, cognitively, physically and emotionally. Dr. John Ratey, a clinical psychiatry professor, Harvard University states in his book, A User's Guide to The Brain, p 178:
"Our physical movements can
directly influence our ability to learn, think, and remember. It has been shown
that certain physical activities that have a strong mental component, such as
soccer or tennis, enhance social, behavioral, and academic abilities. Evidence
is mounting that each person's capacity to master new and remember old
information is improved by biological changes in the brain brought on only by
physical activity. Our physical movements call upon some of the same neurons
used for reading, writing, and math. Physically active people reported an
increase in academic abilities, memory, retrieval, and cognitive abilities. What
makes us move is also what makes us think. Certain kinds of exercise can produce
chemical alterations that give us stronger, healthier, and happier brains. A
better brain is better equipped to think, remember, and learn."