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Addressing Sport and Fitness Needs for Students with Disabilities in GPE/APE

Learn how to address the sport and fitness needs of students with physical disabilities through coordinated sport programs in general and adapted physical education classes, community club sports, and elite-level training programs. Discover resources and professional development opportunities designed for educators. Your students can be our athletes!

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Addressing Sport and Fitness Needs for Students with Disabilities in GPE/APE

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  1. Ronald W. Davis, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX Jeff Jones, BlazeSports America, Decatur, GA John Register, United States Olympic Committee, Colorado Springs, CO Gavin Cloy, Sweet Apple Elementary School, Roswell, GA Meeting Interscholastic Sport/Fitness Needs for Students with Disabilities in GPE/APE

  2. Purpose • The purpose of this presentation is to learn how to address the sport and fitness needs for students with physical disabilities through coordinated sport programs in • general/adapted classes, • community club sports, • elite level training programs • Resources and professional development opportunities designed for general/adapted physical educators will be shared by discussion about • texts • community sport programs • professional conferences dedicated to helping students with physical disabilities follow a traditional interscholastic and club sport model to success.

  3. Your students can be OUR ATHLETES …

  4. Spinal Cord Injured

  5. Visual impairments

  6. Cerebral Palsy • Head Injured and Stroke survivors

  7. Amputee

  8. Les Autres • French for “the others” • MD, MS, OI, etc

  9. Putting disability sport in your General Physical Education Program • How did you enter into a sports program? • How did you learn the rules, skills, and strategies for basketball, soccer, volleyball, or tennis? • Through your school physical education program, right? • So why shouldn’t that be the same place for students with disabilities to learn about sport? • Who’s to benefit?

  10. Everyone benefits: • Students without disabilities can benefit from learning about sports played by students with disabilities by: • Making your curriculum more comprehensive • Broadening the perceptions of SW/OD related to sports • Putting SWD and SW/OD on common ground of sports…think of the reactions if you can get SW/OD to learn the skills of WC basketball or what it would be like for a SWD to have his/her friends say to them “who won your game last night?” or “I’ll be at your game tonight” • Sport is Sport….we should embrace the common ground it provides for learning and social interaction

  11. Athletics

  12. Athletics

  13. Athletics

  14. Basketball

  15. Football (Soccer)

  16. Tennis

  17. Volleyball (sitting)

  18. Look at the similarities

  19. So how can it be delivered? • Through planned • Curriculums • Same – SWD & SWOD follow same curriculum • Multi-level - same curriculum with slight modifications • Modified – IEP goals aligned with curriculum goals; SWD and SWOD doing different activity for same goals • Different – SWD unique needs not met in GPE • Use of various teaching styles • Teacher centered • Student centered • Use of various class formats • 1on 1 • Small group • Large group • Mixed

  20. Examples of similarities for teaching:Traditional Basketball • Sport skills • Basketball Key Teaching points • Passing __________________ • Dribble __________________ • Shooting __________________ • Ball Movement __________________

  21. Similarities for teaching the same skill in wheelchair basketball • Wheelchair Basketball • Skills Key Teaching points • Passing __________________ • Dribble __________________ • Shooting __________________ • Ball Movement __________________ • Bounce Stop • Bounce Spin • Ball Retrieval

  22. So why do it? Why try to put Disability Sport in your PE Curriculum? • For the same reason as you do for traditional sport • Promote fitness and address issues of obesity • Promote a common ground for All children to communicate, socialize, and learn • Because it’s the right thing to do • Address the GAO report!

  23. Findings from the GAO report on extracurricular activities for SWD • After national interviews and survey results the GAO office stated: • District and school officials cited a lack of information on ways to expand athletic opportunities, lack of clarity regarding schools’ responsibilities, and budget constraints as key challenges. • Education has provided little information or guidance on PE or extracurricular athletics for SWD, and some states and districts said more would be useful. • According to IDEA, sports should be a school responsibility for all children…

  24. Additional Barriers Impacting SWDs Participation in Disability Sport A lack of: • Opportunity for inclusion • Organized programs • Trained professionals • Knowledge of coaching/training SWDs • Role models • Transportation

  25. So who is doing it? Who has Disability Sport in the Schools? • Five states in the United States have merged their high school interscholastic sport programs to include athletes with disabilities • Florida* • Georgia • Illinois • Kentucky* • Maryland • Minnesota • Oregon • *depicts emerging

  26. So what resources are available for General Physical Educators? • State manuals from those States with current programs • Community based programs • Blazesports • Special Olympics • AAASP • Textbooks • Teaching Disability Sport for PE Teachers

  27. Resource Available for PE Teachers

  28. Jeff Jones – Blazesports America Moving from Schools to Community and Clubs Sports

  29. Moving from School to the Club Sport Programs • Until disability sport is better established in the public schools, where does the student with a disability • Learn about sport • Participate in sport • Compete in sport • Community Programs like BlazeSports America • Here is Jeff Jones to tell you about how you can get your student into sport competition beyond school competition

  30. At BlazeSports America, our mission is… to advance the Lives of youth and adults with physical disability through sport and healthy lifestyles

  31. Who We Serve • Children and adults with physical disability who: • have a spinal cord injury • have an amputation • have visual impairment or blindness • have a neurological or mobility impairment (e.g. cerebral palsy or brain injury) • Military • recently disabled American soldiers in military hospitals and rehab facilities

  32. BlazeSports America Offices BlazeSports America National Office Atlanta, Georgia BlazeSports America Office of Sport Policy and Advocacy Washington, DC

  33. Why BlazeSports?

  34. Opportunities • Non Disabled • Abundant opportunities exist in all local communities throughout America • Recreation agencies, schools, churches and sports leagues assure that these opportunities abound • Intellectual Disability • Special Olympics provides an extensive network of both recreational and competitive sport for cognitively disabled

  35. Sports Camps

  36. TrailBlazers Youth Leadership Training We cannot always build the future for our youth but we can build our youth for the future. Franklin D. Roosevelt

  37. Weekly programs…

  38. EQUIPMENT LOAN PROGRAM

  39. Mr. John Register - USOC UNITED STATES OLYMPIC COMMITTEE VICTORY FROM DEFEAT! The Road to the Paralympic Podium Therapeutic Recreation Symposium for Southwest Arkansas2011 Spring Symposium/Conference March 18, 2011

  40. VICTORY FROM DEFEAT! THE ROAD TO THE PARALYMPIC PODIUM. • Paralympics and the Paralympic Movement • Paralympic Games are the second largest sport event on Earth! • Only second to the Olympic games.

  41. VICTORY FROM DEFEAT! THE ROAD TO THE PARALYMPIC PODIUM. • A Brief History of the Paralympic Movement • Stoke-Mandeville Games • 1948 • First Paralympic Games in Rome • 1960 • International Paralympic Committee (IPC) • Formed • 1989 • United States Olympic Committee forms U.S Paralympics • 2001

  42. VICTORY FROM DEFEAT! THE ROAD TO THE PARALYMPIC PODIUM. • A Brief History of the Paralympic Movement • Rome Paralympics Games • 400 Athletes • 23 Countries • Only wheelchair athletes • 1960 • First Summer Games in Montreal • 1600 Athletes • 40 Countries • 1976 • First Winter Games in Sweden • Nordic and Alpine Sport • 12 Countries • 1976 • Paralympic Games in Beijing 4200 Athletes • 148 Countries • 2008

  43. VICTORY FROM DEFEAT! THE ROAD TO THE PARALYMPIC PODIUM. • Support of the Paralympic Movement • USOC Mission: • Support U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes in achieving • sustained competitive excellence and preserve the Olympic • ideals and there by inspire all Americans.

  44. VICTORY FROM DEFEAT! THE ROAD TO THE PARALYMPIC PODIUM. • Paralympic Sport • Summer Sport • Archery • Basketball • Boccia • Canoeing/Kayaking • Cycling to include hand cycling • Equestrian • Fencing • Goalball • Judo • Powerlifting • Rowing • Rugby • Sailing • Shooting • Soccer • Swimming • Table Tennis • Track and Field • Triathlon • Volleyball Goalball Sit Volleyball Wheelchair Rugby

  45. VICTORY FROM DEFEAT! THE ROAD TO THE PARALYMPIC PODIUM. • Paralympic Sport • Winter Sport • Alpine skiing • Biathlon • Curling • Nordic skiing • Sled hockey Sled Hockey Curling Biathlon

  46. VICTORY FROM DEFEAT! THE ROAD TO THE PARALYMPIC PODIUM. • Paralympics vs. Special Olympics • Similarities • Both focus on sport for athletes with disabilities. • Managed by international non-profit organizations. • Differences • Special Olympics’ focuses on participation rather than • competition. • Paralympic Games is about elite competition; athletes must • meet qualification standards. • Paralympic name derives from “Para” Parallel Games to the Olympics.

  47. VICTORY FROM DEFEAT! THE ROAD TO THE PARALYMPIC PODIUM. • Sport enhances rehabilitation!

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