Strategies for Inclusion: A Handbook for Physical Educators - Softcover

Lieberman, Lauren J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 073600324X ISBN 13: 9780736003247

Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

The purpose of this book is to educate and empower teachers of physical education by introducing them to all the variables that can be adapted to ensure appropriate inclusion in physical education. This book is organized to provide the reader with the most up to date and useful strategies to include children with disabilities. It should help teachers make placement decisions based on each child's unique needs and the unit of instruction. The reader should also learn how to develop and implement a physical education IEP, introduce disability/ability awareness activities, train peer tutors, use support personnel and use homework in physical education. In addition, over 52 skill-related procedures for both quantitative and qualitative assessment purposes are provided across 38 units of instruction, each with potential adaptations specified. The adaptations highlighted fall into four categories: environmental adaptations, equipment adaptations, instructional adaptations and rule adaptations. The appendices provide an extensive amount of information that teachers can use to successfully include children with disabilities in general physical education.

About this title

About the Author

Lauren Lieberman, PhD, is an associate professor in the department of physical education and sport at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Brockport. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in adapted physical education and coordinates five practicum programs, including Camp Abilities, a developmental sports camp for children who are blind. She conducts research in inclusion and physical activity for people with sensory impairments. She coauthored the books Games for People With Sensory Impairments (Human Kinetics) and Case Studies in Adapted Physical Education.

In 1995, Lieberman earned her PhD from Oregon State University in human performance with a minor in movement studies and disabilities. While there, she taught classes in adapted physical education and coordinated a play-based program for infants and toddlers. Her research at Oregon State focused on inclusion of deaf children in physical education.

Cathy Houston-Wilson, PhD, is an associate professor in the department of physical education and sport at the State University of New York at Brockport, where she coordinates the physical education teacher education concentration. She earned her PhD in adapted physical education from Oregon State University in 1993.

Houston-Wilson has taught general and adapted physical education, and she developed the early childhood inclusive motor program at SUNY Brockport. Currently, she advises school districts on appropriate inclusion of students with disabilities into general physical education.

Edition details

• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 073600324X
• ISBN 13: 9780736003247
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 265