TRAINING TO SUCCEED ON TWO WHEELS, ONE ON THIS SCHOOL VACATION WEEK, A SPECIAL CAMP. THIS IS THE EIGHTH ANNUAL EMERSON HEALTH LEARN TO BIKE CAMP, WHERE 40 CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS ARE SIGNED UP TO EITHER LEARN TO RIDE A BIKE OR TO IMPROVE THEIR BIKING SKILLS. IT GOES GRADUALLY FROM ADAPTIVE BIKES INTO TWO WHEELED BIKES. BIKE CAMP TAKES PLACE HERE AT LAWRENCE ACADEMY IN GROTON AND CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AND THEIR FAMILIES COME HERE FROM UP TO TWO HOURS AWAY. TO BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM. THE TRAINING STARTS INSIDE THE HOCKEY RINK. DON’T WORRY, THERE’S NO ICE. THIS IS WHERE WE MET. SHAY. LOOKED LIKE YOU WERE HAVING FUN. YEAH. HAVING FUN. SHAY’S MOM SAYS THIS PROGRAM IS TEACHING HER SON MORE THAN BIKING. IT’S ALSO GIVING HIM CONFIDENCE AND TEACHING HIM AGILITY. SO SHAY HAS A BIKE. HE HAS A BIKE. AND HE. HE HAD BIG TRAINING ADULT TRAINING, WHEELS ON IT. UM, BUT NOW, HOPEFULLY HE WON’T. AFTER THIS, HE’LL LEARN HOW TO BALANCE. YEAH. AND HE’LL HAVE MORE CONFIDENCE. YES. WHAT DO YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT BIKE CAMP? WHAT DO YOU SAY? AND YET STUDENTS EVENTUALLY TRAIN OUTSIDE AS WELL TO FAMILIARIZE THEMSELVES WITH RIDING A TWO WHEEL BIKE ON PAVEMENT, DOING IT FROM FROM THE PRACTICE TRAINING WHEELS TO NOW THE TWO WHEEL BIKE. ALTHOUGH IT’S A LITTLE BIT TRICKY WHEN IT COMES TO THE BALANCING, BUT I CAN GET THE HANG OF IT WHEN YOU HAVE A SPECIAL NEED, KID. EVERY SINGLE MILESTONE IS IT’S A CELEBRATION WHEN YOU JUST GET HAPPY AND YOU JUST START THINKING. WE TAKE FOR GRANTED EVERYTHING WE CAN LEARN, BUT FOR THEM IT MEANS SO MUCH. SO I’M SO HAPPY. REPORTING IN GROTON, TODD
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Bike Camp teaches students with special needs confidence, agility
The 8th annual Emerson Health Learn to Bike Camp is being held during school vacation week.About 40 children with special needs are signed up to either learn to ride a bike or to improve their biking skills. "It goes gradually from adaptive bikes into two-wheeled bikes," camp director Tamara Alie said.Bike Camp takes place at Lawrence Academy in Groton. Children with special needs and their families come from up to two hours away.The training starts inside the hockey rink – don't worry, there's no ice! This is where we met Shea. Shea's mother said this program is teaching her son more than bike riding. It's also giving him confidence and teaching him agility. "He has a bike, and he had adult training wheels on it, but now, hopefully, he won't after this. He'll learn how to balance, and he'll have more confidence," said Holly Keane, Shae's mother.Students eventually train outside, as well, to familiarize themselves with riding a two-wheel bike on pavement. "Doing it from the practice training wheels to now the two-wheel bike – although it's a little bit tricky when it comes to the balancing, but I can get the hang of it," student Luiza Lamdra said."When you have a special needs kid, every single milestone is a celebration. You just get happy. We take for granted everything we can learn, but for them, it means so much, so I'm so happy," said Christiani Landra, Luiza's mother.
GROTON, Mass. —
The 8th annual Emerson Health Learn to Bike Camp is being held during school vacation week.
About 40 children with special needs are signed up to either learn to ride a bike or to improve their biking skills.
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"It goes gradually from adaptive bikes into two-wheeled bikes," camp director Tamara Alie said.
Bike Camp takes place at Lawrence Academy in Groton. Children with special needs and their families come from up to two hours away.
The training starts inside the hockey rink – don't worry, there's no ice! This is where we met Shea.
Shea's mother said this program is teaching her son more than bike riding. It's also giving him confidence and teaching him agility.
"He has a bike, and he had adult training wheels on it, but now, hopefully, he won't after this. He'll learn how to balance, and he'll have more confidence," said Holly Keane, Shae's mother.
Students eventually train outside, as well, to familiarize themselves with riding a two-wheel bike on pavement.
"Doing it from the practice training wheels to now the two-wheel bike – although it's a little bit tricky when it comes to the balancing, but I can get the hang of it," student Luiza Lamdra said.
"When you have a special needs kid, every single milestone is a celebration. You just get happy. We take for granted everything we can learn, but for them, it means so much, so I'm so happy," said Christiani Landra, Luiza's mother.
