sport for 3 year old with s&l delay + autistic traits? any recommendations?

[chocjunkie]

thinking about taking DD (3.7, severe s&l delay/disorder, autistic traits, no dx) to some kind of sport. she is pretty physical and has endless energy. she loves kicking the ball football isn't an option I think (she would not understand the rules, the sharing of the ball and the other kids would probably stress her out). she has grommets, so swimming isn't an option at the moment either...

does anybody have any suggestions as to what might be worth trying?

Baby Ballet?

3 is pretty young to be doing sport. Most 3 year olds won't be doing organised sport at that age.......

I know its not a sport as such but my dd absolutely loves her trampoline. Best money we ever spent :) At least she is outside and getting lots of fresh air.

Also meant to add, my dd is exactly the same age and also has severe speech delay and possible ASD. I dont think she would really cope with a) understanding the rules of a 'sport' or b) the 'busy-ness' of a sports hall.

ds has been doing dance at nursery since about that age, he's only recently started to join in though. He also does lots of swimming & football at soft play play (rules don't seem to matter much!) - he's starting riding on Sunday, they start at 3 years old, maybe that would be an option?

dd1 did baby ballet from 4 I think - it isn't particularly energetic, an hour at soft play burns off far more energy ime :)

From pre-school age we used badminton rackets and shuttles hung from door frame (extra wide) indoors and trees/washing line outdoors. My ds really enjoyed that and now late teens still continues to play badminton. It also helped his coordination.
Trampoline also good, my ds used to go to the tramp club and gym club, there are waiting lists but time flies.

Our sports centre has a gym joeys which is fab my dd2 runs wild there! I think there's a chain of them they are a bit like tumble tots

Trampolines and soft play were our go-to's at that age. At school DS did something called 'Enjoy-A-Ball' which he/we loved - it was basically all sorts of activities to do with ball skills, so not getting into rules, football, etc. It was open to kids at the nursery too so would probably suit your DD?

thanks - will definately look into trampolines... don't I didn't come up with it myself (DD is trampolining quite a bit in our bed ). we have an appointment with her ENT doc next month. grommets where put in a while ago so chances are, they fell out. leaves only the challenge of getting a swim suit for my post baby body LOL

We've got a trampoline and soft play is always good.

We are just about to start a martial arts class (based on taekwondo) which has been recommended to me by a few people. The class we are doing takes children from age 2 - we haven't been able to do it until now as we were doing swimming on Saturdays (Ds1 is 4.5). I've also just been given a flyer by DS1's school for SN judo classes.