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THE ADAPTED
PROGRAM
Rrporter: Jerone Roquero
Jerrah Artuyoa
Ginalyn Javier
Angel Bacauco
Marilyn Garpin
Edmar Remata
Objectives
In this unit the student should be able to
1. Discuss the nature and scope of the
adapted program
2. Determine the objectives of an
adapted program
3. Outline the steps in the organization of
an adapted physical education program
4. Explain the administrative policies and
procedures needed in the
implementation of the adapted program.
What is...

NATURE AND SCOPE OF

THE ADAPTED
PROGRAM
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.
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.
 C h i l d r e n ’s p a r ti c i p a ti o n i n t h e
r e g u l a r p h y s i c a l e d u c a ti o n p r o g r a m
is most frequently prohibited by the
f o l l o w i n g h a n d i c a p p i n g c o n d i ti o n s :

Orthopedic
handicap
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.
Characteristics:
paralysis, poor muscle control,
difficulty with speech production,
loss of a limb, which limits one's ability
to perform daily living activities,
Poor body mechanics
body mechanics refers to how
you move or lift, sit, twist or
stand. Poor body mechanics
refers to incorrect movements of
your body in performing daily
tasks that mostly result in tears
and injuries damaging the spine
or other joints in the body that
causes it to degenerate, it is also Cardiovascular conditions
the cause of poor postures and
potbelly.
refers to the overall
condition of the
cardiovascular system.
example: cardiovascular
disease.
 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.
 Other traumatic, pathological and
congenital conditions -
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.
OBJECTIVES OF
THE ADAPTED
PROGRAM
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.
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.
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. To
accomplish this aim, the following specific objectives are set forth for
the children in the adapted program to be able to:

1. Attain optimum physical fitness;

2. Acquire skills in the basic movements needed for a continuous
physical improvement in growth and development;
3. Gain increased awareness of the potentialities which may be
developed despite the presence of a handicap or limitations;
4. Acquire the needed skills for satisfactory participation in
recreational activities for social and emotional growth.
 Lesson 13

STEPS IN
ORGANIZING AN
ADAPTED PROGRAM
1. Determine the requirements for the adapted
program. These are:

a. identification of students for possible

assignment to the adapted program.
b. determination of the types and frequency of the
handicapping conditions which limit the student’s
physical activity.
c. a review of the existing accumulated health
records.
d. survey results.
2. Solicit medical cooperation. The physical
education teacher should refer the identified
students in No. 1 to the school physician. It is the
physician’s diagnosis that provide the basis for a
sound program of adapted physical education. He
should be consulted in order for him to:

a. determine nature and extent of the disability.

b. select and decide specific physical activities.

3. Classify the physical status of the individual. A medical
classification code for physical education may be developed
to consist of generalized limitations or contraindications which
could be imposed by anyone of several different physical
deficiencies. Such categorization might include.

a. an indication that the individual should limit his energy

output.
b. an indication that the individual should not participate in any
activity which could by its nature expose the individual to
trauma.
c. an indication that the individual should avoid 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 desiring to rehabilitate a physical

disability.
b. those desiring to adapt to a permanent
disability.
c. those requiring a limited physical activity
program.
d. those requiring a developmental program.
ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES AND
PROCEDURES

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.
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.
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