Move as you are: realize how to promote sport and movement of children with visual impairements

The project aims to enhance active lifestyle, well-being and neuro-sensorial capability in children with visual impairement (CWVI). In early stage life, active practice at home and individual fundamental athletics to team-sport activities play a central role for all physical activities in life, generating feelings of inclusion, attitude, and communication beyond social and physical barriers. Unfortunately, many visual impaired children does not start sport at early stage because of their feeling of uncertainity towards movement, the fear of their parents and the lack of competencies of their physical education teachers/coachies and trainers (but that could be enlarge to sport associations, physiotherapist, kinesiologist, mental coaches which works with youth generation with visual disabilities). The aim of "Move as you are" project is to facilitate the approach to sport to visual impareid children. We believe that to promote social inclusion, motor coach and physical education teachers in a school-educational context have to be trained in developing games with coexisting blind and normal-motor children, as well as involvement in sport activities. Such activities could effectively enhance the cooperation and mutual knowledge between them and promote a consciousness against discrimination. As a result, we are going to create a Booklet on best practices on how to involve CWVI into sport, as a source of inspiration, and a MOOC to train physical education teachers and coach, and other interested stakeholders, on how to support and facilitate visual impaired children' early approach to sport and movement. We will also organize a training session to make in practice such activities and show how implement the contents of the MOOC. All the project's activities and results will benefit visual impaired children (and their families) from the point of view of developing their motor and physical skills, but also their social attitudes.