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Foot Ladder Sprints

Skills:

Physical: foot placement while running, agility, lower limb coordination

Cognitive: visual processing, selective attention

Social: understanding of personal space, turn taking (if doing activity with more than one person)

Number of participants:

1 or more

Equipment:

agility ladder

Description:

  1. child runs up and down an agility ladder that is placed on the ground, stepping in each space between the rungs

Modifications to make the activity easier:

Change the environment: use a shorter ladder to decrease physical demand

Change the task: have the child hold their arms out for balance to decrease physical demand

Modifications to make the activity harder:

Change the environment: have child complete the activity in a noisy room to increase cognitive and social demand

Change the task:

  • have the child count out loud while moving through the ladder to increase cognitive demand
  • decrease time to complete the ladder to increase physical demand

Goal examples:

  • I will be able to run up and down the agility ladder within 30 seconds, 3 times in a row while holding the hand of a friend or coach
  • I can walk up and down the agility ladder