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Exercise is being used by teachers, special educators, parents, therapists, paraprofessionals and family members.

A special educator will use exercise for a learner with ASD who has a difficult time in the afternoons completing tasks.  His completion rate increased by fifty percent.

A teacher uses an exercise intervention for her entire class to target multiple behaviors, like emotional regulation, aggressiveness, and self simulator behaviors. It helps to students focus more on academic tasks.

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Learners with ASD  have lower levels of physical activity than their peers.

According to the National Professional Development Center on ASD (2015) "Exercise has been used successfully as an intervention to increase desired behaviors and decrease inappropriate behavior."

"Exercise intervention is also an evidence based practice that has been effective for preschoolers to middle school children," (National Professional Development Center on ASD, 2015).
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Many people probably wonder if ECE is actually working? Below is a link for an Exercise Activity and Movement Checklist.
You can view the learners ability to preform a skill, and also track their level of interest as well.
Keeping track of this daily, or even weekly can help you as well as the learner. If you can find something the learner has an interest in, than their ability to preform may be higher.

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1. Running
2. Swimming
3. Jumping on a trampoline
4. Hula hooping
5. Wall push-ups
6. Jumping jacks
7. Jump rope
8. Bicycle

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Incorporating physical education in your daily routine can be very beneficial for students on the spectrum. It can be used as an intervention to increase and or decrease specific behaviors as well.
Some behaviors you can increase are:
1. Engagement
2. Task oriented
3. Correct responding
4. Task completion
Some behaviors you can decrease are:
1. Inappropriate behaviors
2. Aggression
3. Injury to ones self and others
4. Tine off task
When using exercise to increase or decrease behaviors it is important to remember that the activities should increase breathing, along with heart rate, so exertion takes occurs.

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If you notice that the learner isn't making the progress they should be, there are many different things to consider, like:
~Is the target or skill being defined well enough for students to understand?
~Is the skill able to observed?
~Is the skill too difficult? Should  you break it down into smaller steps?
~Is the skill appropriate for the learner?

Take the time to observe your activity, and if it isn't working ask yourself why and spend the time figuring out why it isn't.

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They're are many goals to focus on when incorporating activity into your lessons but,  a few important ones are:
- To increase physical activity
- Increase/decrease specific beahviors
When using exercise, it is important to remember a few different factors. Some of those would be, body composition, muscular strength, endurance, and intensity.

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When a student engages in healthy physical activity it can help to promote long term positive effects. It can also increase a students motor skills, fitness skills, and better academic success.

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Below is a PDF download of ECE data collection. If you keep track of what the students do and how they preform each day, you can see what actives work well and what ones do not. This will help you help your students succeed.
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Below is also a link for ECE and behavior monitoring. This form is helpful to have because you can track and monitor the student behavior after each activity.
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