Kids Health: Cyber-Cycling for Behavioral Issues?
Do your kids come home complaining about other students in their class that are a distraction to everyone else? Maybe your child was clinically diagnosed with a behavioral disorder? With these types of disorders, it’s common to hear their behavioral issues disrupt the learning process. In some instances, it seems like the teacher spends more time correcting students’ behaviors than they do actually teaching. This is not meant to put down those suffering from disorders—they didn’t have a choice in the matter, unfortunately. But, there might be a way to minimize these behavioral issues through the use of virtual reality and exercise.
A New Kind of Gym Class
Researchers from Harvard University are now looking at using virtual reality games with stationary bikes as a form of gym class for students with behavioral issues. Rather than having them participate in the activities with the other students, the focus of their research is to see if this new form of activity changes the behavior of some of the children. This technology, though, is not cheap, and therefore many schools will not be able to afford the equipment, a major deterrent as schools have limited budgets and paying for something like a cybercycle could completely blow a budget. Such equipment might be better suited for schools dedicated to students with behavior issues and disorders.
Cybercycling and the Study for Behavioral Issues
This newly named form of exercise was developed by researchers who visited a school for kids with behavioral problems. 103 students were pulled into a seven-week study. The average age of the participants was 12 and the majority of the participants were boys. The goal was for the students to vigorously exercise through the use of the stationary bike and virtual reality platform for 10 minutes, working their way eventually up to 20 minutes during a normal gym class.
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