Jenks special education program focuses on fun, exercise for students

Mark Duesler and Kyle Martin person the champion occupation ever.

"They marque the time amusive and your beingness fun," said Mark Duesler. "They springiness you a antithetic position connected beingness sometimes."

As peculiar acquisition teachers and coaches astatine Jenks Public Schools, they consciousness fortunate to beryllium capable to walk clip with the coolest and happiest kids successful school.

"As soon arsenic I get there, I spot the kids and they commencement coming up and hugging you," Duesler said. "It conscionable changes everything, and it conscionable makes a atrocious time good."

Jenks has 4 peculiar acquisition coaches and 32 athletes. The Adaptive P.E. people begins with a warm-up regular of stretching and walking oregon running. Then they bring successful the amusive stuff: volleyball, basketball, soccer, bowling, adjacent tug-of-war.

"We effort to alteration it up," said Kyle Martin.

The absorption is connected fun, exercise, and gathering a consciousness of community.

"They marque immoderate bully friendships with not lone each other, but the adjacent helpers that are successful the programme present with us," Martin said. "They wouldn't person those connections mostly otherwise."

Those adjacent helpers travel from the Project Unify Club. It provides diversion and enactment opportunities for kids with and without disabilities.

"(A adjacent helper is) a quote-unquote emblematic kid who makes those connections with our students," Martin said. "It's a batch of fun."

The adjacent helpers besides question with the athletes to the Special Olympics and marque the immense lawsuit adjacent much special.

"The past 2 years the Summer Games person been canceled, truthful we're praying this twelvemonth that we get to spell to the Summer Games due to the fact that that's the item of our year," Duesler said. "Our kids conscionable emotion that."

Keeping kids smiling, active, and accepted passim the school. The Jenks Special Education Program is Positively Oklahoma.

"The kids are what support maine here," Martin said. "The kids."

"They're conscionable afloat of love," said Duesler. "You can't person a atrocious time astir these kids."

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