A Few Weeks In

  My name is Mandy Linford, and I am an honors student in the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. For my honors project I get the opportunity to help at the Lakeshore Foundation in a child's aerobic/water class called Land Sharks. Cute, huh? This class is for children between the ages of 4-7 with some kind of disability. For my project I am completing a pre and post assessment of the children using a program called: APEAS II- Adapted Physical Education Assessment Scale. This scale measures how well the children can do things such as: skip, catch, run, kick, balance, and throw. Because this class is just starting, I am able to measure their abilities now so that at the end of their classes in December, I can see how well they have improved. So far I have assessed most of the children in the class and have had a blast helping them play!