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Special Needs Karate Programs



SPECIAL DRAGONS non-profit ADAPTIVE KARATE
              PROGRAM for CHILDREN with AUTISM

Most children participate in some kind of after school activity, baseball, football, soccer, they have many choices. Children with Autism and other developmental disabilities are often left uninvited.

It was the near total absence of after school programs for children with special needs that inspired Special Dragons.

Special Dragons non-profit is an adaptive karate program for children with Autism and other developmental disabilities.  Although the program does teach self-defense its main focus is measurable improvement in coordination, motor skills, depth perception, conditioning, behavior modification and more. The goal of the program is to use adaptive karate as a vehicle to improve the child’s quality of life.

Special Dragons non-profit lessons are designed by instructors who are both martial artist and special education teachers.  The program incorporates multiple instructors, parents and siblings to engage and teach each special student the entire duration of the class.

The funding we are requesting will be used to pay rent for a proper facility to house our special needs program, qualified instructors, and insurance.  A portion of the funding collected will endow a Special Dragons Scholarship fund for families in financial crisis.  Approximately 25% of our students over the past five years have participated in the Special Dragons scholarship fund.

Your timely donation will insure we can continue this necessary service for our dismissed or forgotten children. Special Dragons has two locations, Nutley Elks, and the Wayne P.A.L.  We are expecting to expand into Jersey City in the near future. The duration of the funding will extend from January through April of 2017.

The funding provides a safe haven where children come together with each other and the community. The students enjoy coming to class not just for the work-out but for the lasting friendships formed there.  Many families communicate and now go on play dates outside of class with their children,  A highly desired goal among special need families.

Your funding will make our children's measurable physical and behavioral progress, happen. We can prove it. Special Dragons keeps dated video records of all of our students.

Your generous donation goes to work today helping real children with names and families.  There is no bureaucracy, Virtually, all the money goes directly into the program for children who need your help now.

Your gift allows children with Autism the opportunity to participate a physical sports activity that was until now unavailable or denied to them.

Watch your donation at work.  Special Dragons classes are posted on facebook  weekly.  Its easy to see in the children’s happy faces how much this  program means to them. However, most will never understand it was you who provided the funding.  Thank you.

Organizer

George Bostory
Organizer
Nutley, NJ

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