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Lifetime Physical Fitness

Lifetime Physical Fitness. For students with mental disabilities. Important benefits:. Social Academic Health Students with challenges have the same fitness needs and capacities as their peers without disabilities. What needs to be done? -Outside the classroom-.

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Lifetime Physical Fitness

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  1. Lifetime Physical Fitness For students with mental disabilities

  2. Important benefits: • Social • Academic • Health Students with challenges have the same fitness needs and capacities as their peers without disabilities.

  3. What needs to be done?-Outside the classroom- • Stop exempting students from physical education. Advocate (school level and district level) to prevent this. • Prevents students from learning lifelong behaviors consistent with national standards set by NASPE • Teaches students that their differences mean that physical activity is not for them

  4. Utilize the IEP process and CSO’s to address the needs of an exceptional student. Standard 1: Movement Forms (PE.S.1) Students will demonstrate competency in many movement forms and proficiency in a few movement forms. Standard 2: Development of Motor Skills (PE.S.2) Students will apply concepts and principles of human movement to the development of motor skills and learning of new skills. Standard 3: Physical Activity (PE.S.3) Students will exhibit a physically active lifestyle that provides the opportunity for enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and social interaction. Standard 4: Physical Fitness (PE.S.4) Students will apply physical fitness concepts to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness. Standard 5: Responsible Personal and Social Behavior (PE.S.5) Students will demonstrate an understanding of responsible personal and social behaviors in physical activity settings.

  5. Expose students at an early age to a variety of physical and recreational activity choices. Provide more resources and training to teachers with students that are challenged. -Inside the classroom-

  6. -At home- Involving the family: See what resources family has Consider role of sibling interests and influence on your student

  7. Summing it all up • Physical activity assists the exceptional student in: • Gaining self confidence • Enhancing health • Gaining life skills • Learning social skills

  8. Information obtained from: Ayvazoglu, Nalan R., Thomas Ratliffe, and Francis M. Kozub. (2004, November/December). Encouraging lifetime physical fitness. Teaching Exceptional Children, 37 (2), 16-20. Retrieved June 7, 2005 from the World Wide Web: http://libproxy.shepherd.edu.

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