Sunday, October 7, 2007

Obstacle Course




I have been working on training obstacle courses with Chief for therapy sessions. We frequently use obstacle courses in therapy for several reasons. We teach children concepts of over, under, through, etc. while going through the course. We also address strengthening and other sensory issues with these courses. I think this will be one of Chief's strongest assets in our clinic, as he really enjoys agility courses. As you can see, we've been able to link several different behaviors together to get a pretty nice little course. Even though he is going through the tunnel 2 times in this video, by placing it at the beginning and end of the behavior chain makes it a new behavior for Chief. Not featured in this video is another step to the course I trained today--going up a foam wedge, jumping off, then going through the tunnel.

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