Catch The Ball!

Catch The Ball! is a fun, easy-to-play game that uses the concept of training your senses. It can help with developing hand-eye coordination, increasing concentration levels, and general sensory processing skills.

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Catch the Ball is a project of Catch the Ball Development Team which is a group of dedicated physical and aquatic education professionals who strive to push the boundaries in educational technology and research for children with special needs and their families. Catch TheBall Development Team has been using this unique, multimodal and educational system since 1999 when CATCH THE BALL® was first produced by Educational Software Technology Inc. (EST) Publishers, Inc. to improve learning opportunities for children with special needs and their families by focusing on sensory motor skills and the principles of gross motor development.

In 1999 EST Publishers completed the production of CATCH THE BALL®, a proprietary software program using copyrighted multimedia content to build new ways of learning that are based on scientific research, documented through peer-reviewed journals, and made available in specialized training programs. The team at EST worked closely with educators from around the nation to create an innovative software program which would provide an alternative teaching methodology that focused on sensory motor skills including gross motor development in both children with special needs and their families. Since 1999 Catch The Ball® was known as the “Catch” method of learning.

Catch the Ball LLC was formed in 2010 to continue the development of CATCH THE BALL®. Catch The Ball® is a trademark and service mark of Catch The Ball LLC.

Dr. Kirk R. Denny, Ph.D., Founder and Director, has been conducting research on sensory motor training since 1979 at Northern Arizona University with funding from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to develop sensory-motor learning strategies that could be used by children with special needs (Aesthetic Based Learning Strategies) and their families. Dr. Denny has worked extensively on the development of CATCH THE BALL® with funding from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the United States Olympic Committee. Catch The Ball LLC continues to work in partnership with educators and physicians at Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University and other educational institutions for the purpose of research and development.

Catch The Ball is a project that has been supported by a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH), which is part of their Neurodevelopmental Disorder Research on Interventions and Services (R01) program. Dr. Denny was awarded a planning grant for $44,500 over two years to explore sensory motor training as a possible intervention for Dravet Syndrome patients that suffer from seizures. Dr. Denny received an additional $150,000 from NIH to conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) for sensory motor training for Dravet Syndrome children.

Catch The Ball LLC is currently supported by the Arizona Commission for Postsecondary Education (ACPE) through a Mobility Project Grant for the production of CATCH THE BALL® Mobile. Catch The Ball LLC is funded by the US Olympic Committee’s Sport Science Institute. Funding from USOC Sport Science will allow the development of digital games and applications in sport science research and sport technology development.

Catch The Ball LLC is supported in part by funds from the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (ED), National Center for Special Education Research (NCES) Elementary and Secondary schools services for children with emotional and behavioral disabilities.

Catch The Ball LLC is funded through the National Science Foundation’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) program in the Center for STEM Learning through ASD.

Catch & Learn® is a registered trademark of Catch The Ball Development Team. This product is not endorsed by or affiliated with any game manufacturers.

In the early 1990s Dr. Kirk R. Denny, Ph.D., a Professor at Northern Arizona University (NAU), was working in the field of research on rehabilitation and special education for children with special needs and their families and began projects on sensory motor training for children with physical and/or developmental disabilities through the Aesthetic Based Learning Strategy (ABLS) project at Northern Arizona University with funding from the National Institute of Health (NIH). Dr. Denny was awarded a planning grant for $44,500 over two years to explore sensory motor training as a possible intervention for Dravet Syndrome patients that suffer from seizures. Dr. Denny received an additional $150,000 from NIH to conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) for sensory motor training for Dravet Syndrome children in collaboration with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).

Dr. Denny and his research team used the Aesthetic Based Learning Strategy (ABLS) project at Northern Arizona University developed by Dr. Denny to provide a new way of learning that focused on sensory motor skills including gross motor development in both children with special needs and their families. Since 1999 the ABLS program has evolved into CATCH THE BALL® through close collaboration with educators from around the nation. The team at EST worked closely with educators from around the nation to create an innovative software program which would provide an alternative teaching methodology that focused on sensory motor skills including gross motor development in both children with special needs and their families.

In 2006, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded Dr. Denny $1.6 million over three years to expand the sensory motor training program for children with neurological disorders including developmental delays, cerebral palsy and other acquired brain injuries.

In 2008, Dr. Denny founded CATCH THE BALL LLC The organization was established to continue further development of CATCH THE BALL® with a focus on special needs populations including children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADD/ADHD, Cerebral Palsy and other physical disabilities that impair gross motor skills such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS).

Conclusion:

The research, development and clinical trials conducted by Dr. Denny have resulted in the refinement of CATCH THE BALL® with a focus on special needs populations including children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADD/ADHD, Cerebral Palsy and other physical disabilities that impair gross motor skills such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS).

Catch The Ball continues to work with educators and physicians at Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University, and other educational institutions for the purpose of research and development.

Denny’s RCT (Randomized Controlled Trial) was completed in 2015. Enrollment was a success at 81% of the target 100 participants.

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