Special Adapted Physical education program Physical education Children with special needs

1. Special Adapted Physical Education Programme ForVariousTypes
And Category Of Physical Disability
Bidhyapati Nongthombam

2. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act , IDEA (1990) uses the
term disability as a diagnostic category that qualifies students for
special services.These categories include:
 Autism
 Deaf – Blindness
 Deafness
 Hearing impairment
 Intellectual disability
 Multiple disabilities
 Orthopedic impairment
 Other health impairment
 Serious emotional disturbance
 Specific learning disability
 Speech or language impairment
 Traumatic brain injury
 Visual impairment including blindness

3.  The primary change needed while teaching students with
intellectual disabilities is to use shorter sentences, use less
verbal instructions and more of gestures and
demonstrations.
 Teachers need to make sure that the activity is made fun and
not too serious.
 They need to give more trial chances to help the child get it
right. Activities should be kept short to enable learning even
with short attention spans.
 The play area needs to be structured and visually appealing
to make it attractive to the student. For example, use a
larger and brighter ball to make it easier to handle. And of
course, the curriculum needs to adapt to reduce the number
of objectives that need to be mastered.

5. Students with ADHD may have motor delays
and the teacher needs to work on reinforcing
confidence and positive feedback is the way
to do it. For this, teachers can implement a
reward system where a student earns
rewards by meeting a minimum expectation.

7.  It is important to understand student needs and
preferences.
 It is possible that students can get very nervous and
anxious during a physical education class.
 They need to be introduced into that environment
with care.
 Students can also be introduced to the setting
beforehand to reduce anxiety.
 They can be taken to the PE setting a few minutes
earlier than the scheduled class to get acclimated to
the environment.
 Peer tutors can also help improve the experience for a
child with disability.

9. It is important to communicate using his/her
preferred means of communication.
Incorporate visual aids with easy to
comprehend images while instructing.
Repeat comments and make sure that the
student has understood the instruction by
getting him/her to repeat the action.

10. It is important to give time to the blind player
to walk around and understand his
environment and be comfortable with it.
They may need more instruction and time to
master certain techniques and movements
and patience is the key.With proper training,
a blind player can participate in most sports
and need not feel left out.

11.  1 in 5 students with learning disabilities will also have motor
impairments.There are a number of ways to accommodate these
students.
 Reduce class size:This allows teacher extra one on one time with
students. Often a class of 20-30 students proves to be more effective
than double or triple that in general physical education classes.
 Use peer tutors: Peers can be rained in how to provide specific skill
feedback as well as modify activities so the student has higher success.
This can be effective when class size cannot be reduced.
 Offer learning strategies: Both teachers and peer tutors can provide
strategies to help disorganized learners focus.This includes provided
picture cues, video cues, and additional cues such as footprints on the
floor to help a student understand what and how to perform an activity.

13.  Provide structured practice: Allow the student to get many
practice opportunities.This will help them learn how to
listen to and observe visual feedback for performance.
 Identify success: Reframe success for students in a way
that does not focus on the end result. For example, using
correct form in shooting should be a measure of success
rather than making the basket.
 Use a variety of senses when giving instructions: Some
students do better listening to instruction while others do
better watching a demonstration. Others may do best
when physically guided into the pattern. By incorporating
many types of learning styles, students will be more likely
to succeed

14. Thank you.