Clayton, a senior at Neosho High School, now has good reason to attend his 6th period P.E. class. After facing multiple handicaps he's now able to physically participate thanks to the Nintendo WII. Which is helping him and his special needs classmates improve on more than their high game scores.

"It's helped me with my eyes and my coordination," Clayton said.

"It helped my writing paper work, I can read my hand writing, last time I wrote I can start reading it," 8th grader Corey Walters said.

Daniel, Corey and their 12 other classmates have a variety of disabilities, and are all part of N.H.S.'s Adaptive Physical Education Class, the first of it's kind in the area

"It's a program that's allowed all kids to perform well and participate to the best of their abilities in physical education," gym teacher Michael Daugherty said.

Daugherty says he used grants and stimulus funding to provide the consoles for the kids to use. He expects more systems and games to be coming soon.

"They're not used to succeeding in areas such as sports and stuff so when they do they're confident, have self esteem and stuff," Daugherty said.

And as the program continues to grow, more kids like Daniel can expect a more hands on approach to gym class, rather than watching from the sidelines.

"It's a bunch of kids having fun and laughing and giggling with other kids," Corey said.