According to John Mikle ET:AL from
Mindful Magazine, “Training students in mindfulness {Demonstrates benefits}
including improvements in working memory, attention, academic skills, social
skills, emotional regulation, and self-esteem, as well as self-reported
improvements in mood, decreases in anxiety, stress, and fatigue”. Resilient
Kids is the organization that does just that. This organization helps students
to relax and concentrate on the now through different types of activities. These
different activities help the children be more aware of mindfulness and allow
them to know how to calm themselves. The techniques of mindfulness have helped
children with their academics by receiving better test scores, better grades,
and overall a better attitude in the classroom setting. One of the activities they talked about in
the Resilient Kids video was the Glitter Jar. By making a glitter jar, it
allows the child to place all their worries and stress (glitter) into the jar
and shake it up whenever they are feeling anxious. After they have shaken the
jar, they set the bottle down and watch all the glitter fall to the bottom of
the jar until every last piece is done. Doing this symbolizes for the child
their worries floating away and calming the storms sort of speak.
After
learning a little about these different practices, I can see these techniques
being used with helping children with disabilities; especially children with
ADHD. Children with ADHD are extremely hyper and sometimes have difficulties
zoning into their academics in school but also helping themselves to calm down
and concentrate. These few activities that Resilient Kids does with the
students could help these children with ADHD learn strategies to use not only
in their academic surroundings but also in their everyday home life too.
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