Disabled kids get a kick out of karate therapy at Shriners HospitalWhile karate classes for children are held around the country every day, this class is special. It’s at the Shriners Hospital for Children in Greenville. And these kids are on crutches, in walkers and braces, and wearing prosthetic limbs.
New Business: Kick with IntegrityIntegrity offers ATA Tigers, Karate for Kids, a teens and adults class for ages 14 and up, and a leadership program for ages 7 and up. Master Michael Plessel is the owner of Integrity Martial Arts. Plessel has been practicing martial arts for 28 years and teaching martial arts for 23 years.
‘Being the solution’Taekwondo Grand Master Vince Church eyed the line of two dozen students sitting on the edge of the martial arts training mat. He pointed to two boys dressed in the athletic T-shirt and shorts – less formal than the classic dobok martial art uniform – on a warm summer afternoon last week.
Martial Arts – The Autistic VoiceMARTIAL ARTS HELP CHILDREN WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME Sandra Beale-Ellis, 2008 My interest in Autism, and in particular, Asperger’s Syndrome started many years ago, when a parent of a karate student, told me her son had been diagnosed with Asperger’s. My initial reaction was ignorance and following that class I read as much as I could on Asperger’s.
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