NEWS:
1994/95'
Creation of SNAP
Average number of participants 100-120 and 100-120 student volunteers!
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Our Focus
Uses the developmental milestones of the first 12 months as guidelines for baseline or fundamental movement patterns.
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Community Service Learning
•Based in a community need
•Stakeholder consult
•Skills that benefit students and community partner
•Assessed academic component over and above the actual practical direct contact work
2015
Celebrating 20th Anniversary
The SNAP team creates a promotional video with the help from volunteers and children/ youth participants.
Site for Pedagogy
SNAP provides a research site for undergraduate, graduate and faculty research. Students are able to track phenomena over time, develop programs and execute them, and explore effective practices across broad spectrums of interest. In addition Brock University student’s can work with parents, teachers, EA’s, PT’s and OT’s and other community partners with shared interests.
Stations
The program is a station based pedagogy, ie. breaking down skills into simpler components and chaining them together progressively in a series of activities embedded in one activity station.
Blending the station-based activity with carefully phrased, open ended tasks (ie, tasks that can have more than one correct response).
Keyword cue & co-actively assist the activity as it unfolds.
Target Population
This program is specifically designed for children, youth and teens with disabilities. We welcome children; youth and teens who have a broad spectrum of disabilities and severities. Many of our participants have more than one disability. The most commonly occurring disabilities are:
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Cerebral Palsy, Spinal Cord Injury, Developmental Disabilities, Autism
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Down’s Syndrome
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FAS, ADD, ADHD, CAP, LD, ODD
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Anxiety, depression, bi polar, ID
What is SNAP?
SNAP is a weekly activity program for school aged children/youth with disabilities based in a “buddy system” of facilitated developmentally appropriate movement in the Niagara region. SNAP is a community service learning initiative that has been running since the 1994-95 academic year. In collaboration with all the school boards and a number of disability services organizations, SNAP offers 1:1, 2:1 and 3:1 facilitated instruction in physical activity.
