Provides physical educators with up-to-date knowledge and skills to deal with all levels of students' abilities. It is the only text in the adapted physical education market that provides both task-specific and developmental teaching approaches. With the national movement to include most students with disabilities into the general curriculum, the text is designed to enable adapted and regular physical education teachers to successfully address those students' needs in the regular physical education class.
Part I: The Scope
Chapter 1: Adapted Physical Education Part II: Key
Techniques
Chapter 2: Adapted Physical Education in the Public Schools
Chapter 3: Determining Educational Needs through Assessment
Chapter 4:
Developing the Individual Education Program
Chapter 5: Teaching to Meet
Learners Needs
Chapter 6: Delivering Services in the Most Inclusive
Environment
Chapter 7: Enhancing Student Behavior Part III: Children and
Youth at Risk
Chapter 8: Physical Fitness and Sport Conditioning
Chapter 9:
Children at Risk: Psychosocial Issues Part IV: Needs of Specific Populations
Chapter 10: Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
Chapter 11: Intellectual
Disabilities
Chapter 12: Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Chapter 13:
Specific Learning Disability
Chapter 14: Mental Health Disorders
Chapter 15:
Physically Disabling Conditions
Chapter 16: Communicative Disorders
Chapter
17: Visual Impairments
Chapter 18: Other Health Impairments Appendix A:
Posture and Body Mechanics Glossary
Dean - College of Health Sciences
