Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Head SAFE: Impairments

Head SAFE: Impairments

Create Your SAFE Space - We Play for: 15 - 30 minutes.

Learning Goals:

• To understand that we can play sports with different physical limitations
• We can not function without our brains.

Purposeful Play:

• Set up a well known game, football, handball, netball
• Impose different restrictions on each player, one can only hop, one can't talk, one has only their left arm, one moves backwards, two have to stay holding hands at all times ect

Purposeful Questions While They Are Playing - Ask Questions and Listen to Answers:

• Is this game fun?
• Which restrictions are hardest to manage?
• Have we all managed to participate on some level?
• Can you think of restrictions that would make it even harder to play?

Purposeful Play - Use Your Imagination or Our Suggestions to Create New Ways of Playing:

• Play again but switch around the restrictions
• Ask participants to make restrictions for each other
• Perhaps add a rule that if you score you can add restrictions to the opposing team
• Try making the whole team experience the same restrictions

- Be imaginative. Try your own variations and progressions!

Purposeful Questions After the Game - Ask Questions and Listen to Answers:

• Is there any body part which can not be replaced or which would prevent us from playing altogether?
• How can we protect ourselves from loss of physical or mental function?