Disabled Children and Chess

Teaching basic chess skills to students with disabilities teaches them high-level thinking skills, independent critical thinking, an understanding of cause and effect, patience, self-reliance, spacial, numerical, administrative-directional, problem solving skills, classifying, associating, concentration, sequencing, analysis, judgment, and reasoning. These skills not only apply with the game but they can put these into use on a daily bases. By learning how to play chess it teaches them all these skills with out them even realizing. It …

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