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Girls bask in their new destiny Arriving at a gym in gaithersburg, clare kearney
bounds inside--13 years old, petite, with fine brown hair and delicate
glasses.Excited.This is a place where competitive cheerleaders practice, girls
who can pull off perfect roundoffs and handsprings and back tucks. This
Tiffany Bracelets
UK story It matters little that she does not do those sophisticated
moves, or that she has down syndrome and autism, or that, in the beginning, she
seemed to barely look at her teammates.Now she stands beside them at
practice.She claps.She brings both arms above her head in a v. When her workout
is over, she wraps her arms around one girl, then another, hugging them. On
clare's team, all the girls have disabilities:Autism, down syndrome, other
conditions that delay development.Some have more physical skill.Some are more
communicative.But together they are destiny, cheerleaders all, a troupe of 12
that has produced what was missing in many of their
lives:Belonging.Acceptance.Friendship. "It's like they have found themselves in
one another,"Said laura thomas, who has watched her 14-Year-Old daughter, chloe,
grow more self-Confident and compassionate as her connection with the other
girls has deepened. The team that has worked so well for clare and chloe is part
of a quiet but growing grass-Roots effort to create more activities outside of
school for children with disabilities.Its successes have come one at a time,
Tiffany Bracelets
UK often driven by parents, nearly 40 years after special olympics
introduced athletic competition into the world of the intellectually disabled.
"It's sort of a viral effect--As more are created, more follow,"Said marguerite
kirst colston of the autism society of america, who cited examples across the
country, including movie Tiffany Earrings
Sale nights, gymnastics classes, day camps. "There are definitely
more parents involved.They get together and come up with an idea, and that
program gets replicated. " This is particularly visible in cheerleading.In the
past year, special-Needs teams have more than doubled at private cheerleading
gyms to nearly 160 squads in 34 states.As recently as seven years ago, there
were none.Separately, in special olympics, at least eight states now offer a
local cheerleading program. "It's huge,"Said mary fehrenbach, a kentucky coach
who in 2001 started the first special-Needs all-Star team, the kentucky elite
showcats. "I knew this would happen if we could just get people out there to see
it.They can do things.They just need the chance. " At a time when 5.5 million
schoolchildren have physical or intellectual disabilities and relatively few
options for before-Or after-School sports and recreation, the need is great,
said james h.Rimmer, director of the national center on physical activity and
disability at the university of illinois at chicago. For the destiny team, the
experience has been transformative.The girls, age 7 to 15, have become more
talkative, more socially comfortable, more engaged, their parents say.They have
made physical strides.
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