Adapted Physical Activity, Recreation and Sport: Crossdisciplinary and Lifespan

Abstract

Part 1 Foundations: active, healthy lifestyle for all celebrating individual differences and appreciating disability sport teamwork, communication, adaptation, and creativity advocacy, the law, and IEP philosophy, planning, and curriculum design assessing, prescribing, and writing the IEP teaching, evaluating, and consulting. Part 2 Assessment and pedagogy for specific goals: self-concept and attitudes towards disabilities social competency, inclusion, and attitude change sensorimotor intergration and severe disability motor skills and patterns perceptual-motor learning fitness and healthy lifestyles postures and appearance play and game competence, active leisure, and relaxation adapted aquatics. Part 3 Individual differences with emphasis on sport: infants, toddlers, and young children - the new emphasis other health impaired conditions learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and DCD mental retardation and special Olympics serious emotional disturbances and autism wheelchair sports and orthopaedic impairments les autres and amputations cerebral palsy, stroke and traumatic brain injury deaf and hard of hearing conditions blindness and visual impairments.