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)

1 or more

agility ladder

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

This activity might not be suitable for people who use wheelchairs. “Wheelchair Friendly Activities” has a list of activities that are easy to adapt for wheelchair users. This list isn’t exhaustive, so we invite you to come up with your own creative ideas to make any activity work for you. If you have an idea on how to make this or any other activity more accessible for wheelchair users, We’d love to hear your ideas on how to make this or any other activity accessible for wheelchair users. Thank you for helping make play more inclusive!

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

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

• 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