Students learn through play at Carlton Comprehensive
Students at the Carlton Comprehensive High School are using play as an educational tool.
The Independent Futures program is offered for students with disabilities between the ages of 13 and 21. Students in the program are being paired up with their peers in the drama 30 course in a mutually beneficial program.
Lynn Lundell, an occupational therapist who’s contracted by the Saskatchewan Rivers Public School Division, said play is an important tool for students in the Independent Futures program to use as many parts of their brain as possible.
“We want them to be moving, and looking, and listening, and anticipating, and thinking about cause and effect, and thinking about social cues all at once,” Lundell said.