Adapted Physical Education

            Hi everyone! Today, we will be learning about another amazing branch of Physical Education. This branch is Adapted Physical Education, and it has a lot of importance in our society. This discipline studies the capacities and limitations of the people with physical disabilities or special needs. This branch helps encouraging students with disabilities to develop their physical activity. Sometimes, these students with special needs, tend to learn slower than regular students and that’s why this branch was created. Adapted Physical Education was created for different reasons, and one of them was to get a regular student and a special student to work together under the same physical education program.

            Adapted Physical Education was also created to design appropriate programs depending of the physical, emotional and mental potentiality of the student’s sector. The specialist of this discipline has a very demanded task when it comes to work with these particularly students. These students do not act, think or behave in the same way that regular students do. Adapted Physical Education’s teachers must learn how to work with these students, they must see things from a different perspective. They are many different cases of special students and a good teacher must have the ability to adapt him or herself to the situation. Finally, this branch is becoming very known around the world. There are a lot of work opportunities in this discipline. If you are looking for jobs opportunities, you should definitely take Adapted Physical Education as a possibility.

             Here I posted a video that shows how an Adapted Physical Education program works.

     

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