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What is Therapeutic Recreation?

By: Sharon Blondin. What is Therapeutic Recreation?. What is it?. Therapeutic recreation is the process of improving the health, abilities and quality of life of participants through leisure, recreation and treatment services for a variety of clients with differing levels of abilities.

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What is Therapeutic Recreation?

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  1. By: Sharon Blondin What is Therapeutic Recreation?

  2. What is it? • Therapeutic recreation is the process of improving the health, abilities and quality of life of participants through leisure, recreation and treatment services for a variety of clients with differing levels of abilities. • Blondin, 2011

  3. Population Served • Youth at risk • Substance Abusers • Geriatrics • Veterans • Seniors • ANYONE with physical, social, emotional or behavioral disabilities

  4. Where do we work? • Hospitals • Nursing Homes • Veteran’s Facilities • Schools • Long-Term Care Facilities • Mental Health Facilities • Special Recreation Associations

  5. Where do we work? • Correctional and Detention Facilities • Homeless Shelters • Special Olympics • Addiction Treatment Centers • And many more!

  6. Possible Outcomes from TR • Friendships • Social Interaction Skills • Cognitive and Memory Skills • Gross and Fine Motor Skills • Independence • Teamwork • Emotional Management • Community Reintegration skills • Confidence • Maturity • And many more!

  7. TR Services • Arts and Crafts • Sports • Horticulture • Dance • Technology

  8. TR Services • Camps • Cooking • Community Reintegration • Aquatics

  9. TR Services • Fitness • Animal Assisted Intervention • And so many more!

  10. Introducing Jaclyn!

  11. Jaclyn • Jaclyn is now 21 year old woman with Down Syndrome. • She is currently studying at the local community college. • When Jaclyn was younger she was easily upset and could not be around peers. • Jaclyn has one older brother who she would often hangout with. • She got involved in the first grade with summer camps, and different social groups at the local special recreation association.

  12. Jaclyn then joined the local girl scout troop. • The girl scout troop had a few other girls who also had disabilities so she was easily accepted into the group. • This picture is of our girl scout troop at a dance in the 2nd grade

  13. Jaclyn slowly made friends with the other girls and became more active in the group • She slowly became more confident with herself. • And was willing to try new things like horse back riding. • This picture is at White Pines Ranch where a few members of the girl scout troop went horse back riding in 1999.

  14. Overtime Jaclyn became more social and would hang out with her peers outside of school. • Jaclyn continues to be active in the community. • In this picture Jaclyn and I in the 5th grade pretending to be Charlie's Angels.

  15. Resources • Peterson, C. A., Stumbo, N. J. (2009) Therapeutic Recreation Program Design: Principles and Procedures: San Francisco, CA: Pearson Education Inc • http://www.specialolympics.org/ • http://www.zimbio.com • http://www.mainlinehealth.org • http://www.wisc.edu/ • http://www.wspt.org/ • http://www.wheelchairliftshop.com/

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