Strategy for creating Slow Motion Balls Modified equipment is an important component for supporting independent participation in gym, sports, and recreation activities.  Ball skills are particularly difficult for children with disabilities, including children having difficulty with coordination.  Observing children with disabilities struggle with ball skills, the idea of modifying a ball with the purpose of slowing the trajectory so the ball remains in play was the strategy for designing Slow Motion balls.  Because of the nature of how the ball rolls it also stays within the “zone of proximal distance” (vigotsky) which affords children a greater propensity to play.