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Making Sport Equipment Accessible on a Limited Budget

Making Sport Equipment Accessible on a Limited Budget. ISAPA 2013. Yeditepe University - Istanbul. Seán Healy Aurélie Pankowiak. Why???. Sport builds physical strength and endurance; it’s a place to nurture friendships and develop social skills.

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Making Sport Equipment Accessible on a Limited Budget

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  1. Making Sport Equipment Accessible on a Limited Budget ISAPA 2013 Yeditepe University - Istanbul Seán Healy Aurélie Pankowiak

  2. Why??? Sportbuilds physical strength and endurance; it’s a place to nurture friendships and develop social skills. Using adapted equipment allows people of different abilities to fully participate in physical activities. Models of APE and APA reflect this: e.g. TREE, STEP… X Availability X $$$ X ??

  3. Adapt It Sport empowers teachers, coaches and leaders with the principles of adaptation and supports them to include all people on the field, in the classroom and in society…

  4. Today’s Plan… Principles of Equipment Adaptation Equipment demonstration Getting creative!

  5. SIX “S” of Equipment Adaptation Size Surface Speed Support Switch Sound

  6. Checklist • Identify ABILITIES • Understand INTERESTS • Identify GOAL • EQUIPMENT needed? • ADAPT equipment [ Six “S” ] • SAFETY & DURABILITY

  7. Targets

  8. Basketball ring (Sullivan, Slagle, Hapshie, Brevard, & Brevard, 2012)

  9. Hula-hoop basketball (Sullivan, Slagle, Hapshie, Brevard, & Brevard, 2012)

  10. Basketball: with support and Sound

  11. Homemade target

  12. Volleyball net (Sullivan et al, 2012)

  13. Throwing Rings (Mendez-Gimenez & Fernadez-Rio, 2011)

  14. Guides Adapt It SPORT

  15. Guides cont…

  16. Balls • Beep Balls • Bell Balls • Lightweight balls • Weighted ball • Supported balls

  17. Supported balls: Striking

  18. Supported balls: Throwing

  19. Throwing cont…

  20. Catch

  21. Supported balls: Kicking

  22. Supported balls: Table Tennis

  23. Bowling Ramps

  24. (Mendez-Gimenez & Fernadez-Rio, 2011)

  25. Bowling

  26. Rope bowling Aharoni, H. (1984).

  27. Wheelchair soccer

  28. Hockey (Mendez-Gimenez & Fernadez-Rio, 2011)

  29. Switches http://www.canassist.ca/EN/main/programs/technologies-and-devices/sports/batswinger.html

  30. Affordable switches… http://www.championshipproductions.com/cgi-bin/champ/p/Physical-Education/ACCESSories-Adapted-Physical-Education-Equipment-Designed-with-Activity-in-Mind_PED-02243.html (Griffin, A. 2005)

  31. Affordable Switches

  32. Racquets • Hand racquet • Light racquet (can vary size)

  33. Velcro Glove

  34. Barriers

  35. Cycling Huffington Post: Lose the Training Wheels

  36. Wheelchair-snow

  37. Balance Board (Mendez-Gimenez & Fernadez-Rio, 2011)

  38. Zoom ball

  39. Polly spots

  40. Polly spots:

  41. Schedules

  42. …Creativity is Key

  43. A girl with a visual impairment wants to independently practice her basketball free-throw and wants to know when she is on target. A man with cerebral palsy (with ambulation and coordination deficits) wants to practice his golf swing. A child who uses an electric wheelchair (e.g. C7/C8 spinal cord injury: some use of fingers) wants to hit a hockey puck into a goal/target. A physical education teacher wants a way to communicate with a boy who is deaf and blind to let him know which pins he has knocked down when he bowls. A boy with a visual impairment wants to play snooker and know where the hole is and when he is successful. Scenarios…

  44. A boy with a severe visual impairment wants to independently practice the volleyball serve to a target. A girl with a visual impairment wants to run hurdles (safely jump hurdles independently). A boy who uses an electric wheelchair (some use of wrist and fingers; no bicep) wants to ‘catch’ a ball thrown by his brother and roll it back to him. A girl with cerebral palsy (coordination and ambulation deficits but can walk independently with crutches) wants to independently practice her fore and backhand tennis stroke. A girl who uses an electric wheelchair (some use of wrist and fingers; no bicep) wants to ‘shoot’ a ball in a basketball ring (height can be adapted). A boy who uses an electric wheelchair (some use of wrist and fingers; no bicep) wants to ‘bat’ a ball in a rounder's/baseball game.

  45. Thank you for attending…Any questions/suggestions? Please contact us for more information, to share ideas, or give feedback…. Sean Healy: sean-og3@hotmail.com Aurélie Pankowiak : aureliepank@gmail.com

  46. References: Aharoni, H. (1984). Games and Activities for Severely Handicapped Students Utilized Small Space and Minimal Equipment, Practical Pointers,5(11), 27 Griffin, A. (2005) ACCESSories: Adapted Physical Education Equipment Designed with Activity in Mind Healy, S. (2013). Adapting Equipment for Teaching Object Skills (in press). Palaestra Mendez-Gimenez, A. & Fernadez-Rio, J. (2011) Homemade Equipment as an Educational Tool in a Group of Students Enrolled in a Physical Education Teacher Education Program, in, AIESEP Book of Proceedings 2011; Limerick, Ireland. Sullivan, T., Slagle, C., Hapshie, T.J., Brevard, D. & Brevard, V. (2012). Build It So They Can Play: Affordable Equipment for Adapted Physical Education, Champaign: Human Kinetics.

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