La disciplina sportiva del Wales a scuola
Salvatore Cravotta
Wales is a sport invented and disciplined by the author of this article that is also played at school to improve the cognitive capacities and basic skills in the mentally retarded. Observations show that the game of Wales helps to restore and enhance basic motor abilities (coordination, balance, strength, posture and muscular tone) in the mentally retarded that have a signifi cant cognitive and emotional-relational skills defi ciency. This sport helps to restore some skills which have been compromised, by promoting the development of sensitive-perceptive functions and consolidating static and dynamic motor skills which are essential to control the body and to organise movements in relation to different contexts.
