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 …showed first 75 words of 315 total…

…showed last 75 words of 315 total…important it can be in a child’s education. It is not only a good thing for children with disabilities it is a good tool for all children. By asking my classmates what they thought, we came to the conclusion that it is a good tool to use but it is not the only tool you can use. If you can teach students to play chess it could help in preparing them for other situations.