Adapted Physical Education

 What is Adapted Physical Education?

Change the word "adapted" to "modified" and you have the idea of Adapted Physical Education. It is good teaching which adapts (modifies) the curriculum, task, and/or environment so that ALL students can fully participate in physical education.

Physical education can be provided to students with disabilities and defines physical education as the development of:

• physical and motor skills;

• fundamental motor skills and patterns (throwing, catching, walking, runing, etc.); and

• skills in aquatics, dance, and individual and group games and sports (including intramural and lifetime sports)

For all practical purposes, Adapted Physical Education IS developmentally appropriate physical education at its finest. It is adapting, modifying, and/or changing a physical activitiy so it is as appropriate for the person with a disability as it is for a person without a disability.

 

Lyn Boone	Parkwood, Shaw, Main, Ankeney Middle School, Ankeney INC.
Kay Lynch-Davis	Yellow Springs, Friends Preschool, Valley, Cedar Cliff Schools, Fairbrook.
Dana Meredith	Greene Co. Learning Center, Greeneview, Ferguson Middle School, Beavercreek High School.
Vicki Pauley	Sugarcreek Local Schools, SEC INC, Warner Preschool, Xenia Preschool Assessments,
Lisa Spatz	Beavercreek, Xenia, Simon Kenton INC, Four Oaks Preschool.