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The Adapted
Program of PE
GROUP 4
Table of Content
01. Definition 05. Objectives

02. Disabilities 06. Steps in Orgzng

Category
03. Nature and 07. Policies
Scope

04. Role of Teachers

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Definition
The adapted program refers to that phase of the physical education program
designed to meet the needs of individual children who deviate from the normal.
These are the children who have some physical inadequacy, functional defects
which are capable of being improved through exercise, or other forms of
deficiency who may be temporarily or permanently unable to take part in the
regular physical education program.
Categories 02
according to IDEA
Autism Orthopedic Impairment
Deaf-blindness Other Health Impairment
Deafness Specific Learning Disability
Developmental Delay Speech or Language
Emotional Disturbance Imapairment
Hearing Impairment Traumatic Brain Injury
Intellectual Disability Visual Impairment
Multiple disabilities
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NATURE AND
SCOPE OF ADAPTED
PROGRAM
Nature and Scope
Adapted physical education is a program of activities, games, sports, and
rhythms suited to the interests, capacities and limitations of children with
disabilities who may not safely or successfully engage in unrestricted
participation in the general program of physical education (JOHPER, 1962).

It offers the individual the opportunity for optimum development and the
maintenance of physical fitness. It provides opportunities for facilitating normal
growth of the child. It helps to prevent the reversal of growth of the child. It helps
to prevent the reversal of such factors as strength, cardio-vascular endurance,
flexibility and skill.
 Children’s participation in the regular physical
education program is most frequently
prohibited by the following handicapping
conditions:
ORTHOPEDIC HANDICAP POOR BODY MECHANICS CARDIOVASCULAR CONDS

Physical defects or deformity
which causes interference with
the normal functioning of
bones, muscles and joints,
which hinders the performance
of a person in daily living.
Body mechanics refers to how refers to the overall condition
you move or lift, sit, twist or of the cardiovascular system
stand. Poor body mechanics including the heart and the
refers to incorrect movements lungs diseases such as heart
of your body in performing daily failure and cardiovascular
tasks that mostly result in tears disease.
and injuries damaging the spine
or other joints in the body that
causes it to degenerate, it is also
the cause of poor postures and
potbelly.
 AUDITORY HANDICAP
Refers to the disadvantage
imposed by a hearing
impairment on a person's
performance in the activities
of daily living.
VISUAL HANDICAPS
Refers to defects of vision
that hinders day to day life
of a person.
PATHOLOGICAL CONDS
Pathological conditions-
Abnormal anatomical or
physiological conditions
and objective or
subjective manifestations
of disease, not classified
as disease or syndrome.
Congenital- a disease or
physical abnormality
which presents from birth.
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ROLE OF PHYSICAL
EDUCATION
TEACHERS
 Teachers need to be:

Accepting of Creative Organized Patient

Individual
Differences
 Teachers need to be:

Supportive Caring Responsible Flexible

 OBJECTIVES OF
ADAPTED PROGRAM

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Objectives
A general objective of adapted physical education which is applicable
to all children is to provide opportunities for the child to acquire the
maximum physiological, psychological, and sociological development
of which he is capable through participation in properly selected and
controlled physical activities.
In view of this, the physical education
teacher should be guided by the following
objectives:

1. To protect each child’s condition from

further aggravation by selecting for him
physical activities within his limitations.

2. To assist the child in understanding and

accepting his own limitations.

3. To help the child overcome his remediable

weaknesses.
In view of this, the physical education
teacher should be guided by the following
objectives:

4. To facilitate the development of

recreational skills needed in sports, games
and other activities suited or adapted to the
individual’s limitations.

5. To provide adaptable activities for the

child to make satisfactory social and
emotional adjustments to problems imposed
by disabilities.
 note:
It is the primary aim of the
adapted physical education
program to help the child
achieve optimum physical,
social, emotional, and mental
growth through a carefully
planned program of
activities.
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To accomplish this Attain optimum physical
aim, the following fitness
specific objectives
are set forth for
the children in the 02
adapted program to Acquire skills in the basic
movements needed for a
be able to: continuous physical
improvement in growth and
development
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Gain increased awareness of
the potentialities which may be To accomplish this
developed despite the aim, the following
presence of a handicap or
limitations
specific objectives
are set forth for the
children in the
04 adapted program to
Acquire the needed skills for
satisfactory participation in
be able to:
recreational activities for social
and emotional growth
 STEPS IN
ORGANIZING AN
ADAPTED PROGRAM
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1. Determine the requirements
for the adapted program.
Identification of students for possible assignment to the adapted
A program.

Determination of the types and frequency of the handicapping

B conditions which limit the student’s physical activity.

C A review of the existing accumulated health records.

D Survey results.
 2. Solicit medical cooperation.

A. Determine nature B. Select and decide

and extent of the specific physical
disability. activities.
 3. Classify the physical
status of the individual.
A. An indication that
the individual should B. An indication that the
limit his energy output. individual should not
participate in any activity
which could by its nature C. An indication that the
expose the individual to individual should avoid
trauma. those activities that would
result in increasing his
extra-abdominal pressure.
4. Determine which of the following
groups a child may belong to:

A. Those B. Those C. Those D. Those

desiring to desiring to requiring a requiring a
rehabilitate a adapt to a limited physical developmental
physical permanent activity program.
disability. disability. program.
ADMINISTRATIVE
POLICIES AND
PROCEDURES
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POLICIES
Specific policies and procedures
must be developed in order for the
adapted physical education
program to function efficiently and
effectively.
SCHEDULING CLASSES
The scheduling of classes in the adapted program
should take into consideration the general objective
of helping the child attain optimum development of
which he is capable through participation in
carefully selected and controlled physical activities.
Ideally, there should be an adapted class scheduled
with a regular class. In such an arrangement, the
student in the adapted program can easily get into
the regular class activities when he can cope with
the activities, and those in the regular class can
easily be accommodated in the adapted class.
 SCHEDULING CLASSES
Hence, there can be a free flow of students from one class to the other as
the case may arise. In a big school which can have the services of a special
education teacher for children with handicapping conditions, an adapted
program for the entire school can be organized. In this case, all the
identified children for the program are pooled together and special classes
are scheduled for them.
THANK YOU!

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