special needs

I have an athlete with special needs who is on our S1 team. She is amazing and does really well in routine but lacks some technique and has some timing issues. We have incorporated her throughout our routine (tumbling, stunts, and dance) as she has been cheering for many years and has level 1...

Your team can qualify to earn 1 of 5 Cheer and 5 Dance bids to Worlds! Any team with Special Needs that would like to earn a bid to perform at the 2018 Cheerleading and Dance World Championship may submit a video for qualification. Comment On Article

Asking for a friend whose CP is on a competitive special needs team. They are trying to make their schedule, and they want to go where they'll be ranked, not just exhibition. With NCA and Cheersport going to exhibition without ranking this season, they're looking for some other places to go. Thanks!

Click For Full Article Though hundreds of teams competed Saturday at AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, it was a small team of only three girls with special needs that captured the heart of spectators. The Shining Stars, who train at Express Cheer in Frisco, performed their routine for...

Click For Full Article My Fox Philly published Special Needs Cheerleading Squad Wins 5th National Title, discussing the 5 time NCA champs, Empire Elite. “Just seeing those transformations and how far all of them have come not only as athletes, but as people is really, really cool,” said David...

@ACEDAD has connected me with a pretty fantastic lady that used to help manage the ACE Bows n Arrows. So it looks like Cheer Energy will be adding a special needs team this year! I've got to get moving on advertising for it but I'd like to pick out a name first. We renamed all of our teams this...

Have some questions from another special needs coach. Please let me know your thoughts! Do your athletes travel overnight to competitions? Do they stay with their families or with chaperones? Any good practices you can share?

Our gym is in the beginning stages of starting a special needs team. I am going to attempt to help as I have some experience in that area, having a special needs child myself. Can anyone point me in the direction of the basic info we will need to get started? I guess our main questions are if...

Click For Full Article KPRC published Cheerleading Squad Caters to Special Needs Teens. Spring Creek Athletics teaches children how to cheer, dance and tumble. One of its teams is called the “Spinning Stars.” All 22 members, ranging in ages 6 to 28, have special needs.

Anyone see this? Cheerleader with Down Syndrome waiting for school's decision to see if she will be allowed on sidelines | abc13.com

So at my school we have a spirit squad, which is a team of girls from the special needs program. They learn cheers and go to different sporting events throughout the year (cross country, freshman football, swimming etc) and cheer them on. I'm in charge of it this year and I'd really like to get...

I will be adding a special needs team to our rec league next year. They will have weekly practices, separate from the sideline cheer squad, in preparation for the year-end countywide performance. They will not cheer for football. Do your programs have special needs kids? Any ideas or...

Please read this if you work with special needs athletes, if you go to school with someone with special needs, if your child goes to school with someone with special needs, if you or your child goes to competitions with special needs athletes, if you go out in public, or if special needs...

I am currently a high school junior. At my school a few varsity cheerleaders run a "Spirit Squad" that meets with special needs students at my school once a week to learn cheers. They cheer at at least one game for each of our school sports. Since I was the only non-senior running the Spirit...

How exactly are they judged? Is it skill level? Memory? Number of assisstents? In my head the only real way they could get judged fairly across all the number of special needs that compete is memory of routine and how much assistance they get in memorizing that routine (but not in skills thrown).

Hey all, I am currently looking into incorporating a special needs team into my program and was wondering if anyone could give me a little info on how they run at your gyms? Is there a monthly tuition, length and frequency of practices, amount of competitions they attend, and how many coaches...

Hello, I am trying to come up with 10-12 songs for a special needs squad. I have a few but I am looking for ideas. I don't want to use anything that is overplayed on the radio .. Last year they had "baby born this way", "firework", "blow" and a few others. I want something powerful but...

Hello, I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I am looking for some of the rules for a special needs squad. I am specifically looking for helper to athlete ratio. How many helpers can be on the floor at a comp? Does the number depend on a specific disibility or is it the...

Anyone know of any good songs that would be perfect for a special needs team's dance song? Or anything else for any other part of the routine? PLEASE HELP, I NEED SUGGESTIONS. Thank you!!!!

I searched first & couldn't find a thread like this. Can people post some great pictures of special needs teams. I am a special education teacher & would like to share some of these pictures with my students. Plus they just put me in a good mood & put a smile on my face! Thanks! :)