Helping Children With Disabilities Get "Fit For The Future"

A brand new system may help enhance the lives of children with disabilities-and help them better control their health.

Sixty-six percent of people with disabilities aren't very satisfied with their lives; 78 percent are unemployed; and health concerns have been increased by them, including greater vulnerability to additional health issues.

But, a new DVD might help enhance the future outlook for kiddies with disabilities. Named "Fit for the Future," it addresses two of the very most important problems facing people with disabilities today: health and employment. The DVD was released by Shriners Hospitals for Children and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

"Fit for the Future" is meant to be a special, progressive program that fills a void in available resources. The DVD includes three 20- to 30-minute, hopeful, kid-friendly exercise routines-stretching, strengthening and stamina-that can be carried out seated or standing. The exercise percentage of the DVD characteristics practitioners and patients from the Tampa Shriners Hospital, along with FBI workers from Tampa, Fla., Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va.

Informational sections are also included by the program on the Shriners fraternity, Shriners Hospitals for Children and the FBI.

The DVD features a second, equally crucial concept of potential future work. Statistically, individuals with disabilities have the best unemployment rate (around 70 percent). Understanding that the FBI particularly desires to hire people with disabilities is actually a tremendous source of support for children with disabilities.

While designed primarily for young ones with orthopaedic problems, "Fit for the Future" is definitely an exercise program nearly anyone can use. The exercise routines highlighted are common and basic enough to offer a starting place for a workout program.

There's an increasing knowing of the value of giving exercise opportunities for those who have disabilities. "We think that an application offering children with disabilities, in addition to the strong presence of an Agent as both role and partner model, may help encourage children with disabilities to exercise," mentioned Peter Armstrong, M.D., medical affairs manager for Shriners Hospitals for Children.

Credit for the style belongs to FBI Special Agent James Knights, who's also a Shriner. Knights, of Pittsburgh, Pa., desired to develop a way to help kids with disabilities understand that should they worked hard and remained as you are able to as strong and healthy, their future could incorporate a job in the FBI.

To find out more on Shriners' system of 22 hospitals offering health care bills and services to kiddies with orthopaedic problems, burns up, spinal-cord injuries, and cleft lip and palate at totally free, produce to Shriners International Headquarters, 2900 Rocky Point Dr., Tampa, FL 33607 or visit www.shrinershq.org. All services are supplied at no charge to kids under 18, regardless of financial need or regards to a url Shriner.