ST Mary’s Catholic Primary School students coping with injury and disability were given a treat on Monday when games were brought to them.
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Ability Links staff, through Live Better, worked with six groups during the day, showing students how they could adapt games to suit classmates with a disability.
They took on wheelchair volleyball and and botchi.
Hamish Langthorne, 6, and Ollie Perkins, 12, who are both currently attending school in wheelchairs, said they enjoyed everyone being on their level – Hamish has Perthes disease, which affects the bone in his hip, while Ollie is recovering from a back operation following a football injury.
Prue McCarthy, who lives with cerebral palsy and works with Ability Links, said the program worked on both inclusion and empathy.
“You can make anything inclusive if you change the rules,” she said.
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