6th Edition
by Dr Joseph Winnick, David L Porretta
The field of adapted physical education and sport has undergone numerous changes in recent years. This new edition of Adapted Physical Education and Sport
will help you stay on top of those changes and, in doing so, provide
the highest-quality physical education and sport opportunities for
students with disabilities.
NEW MATERIAL
The sixth
edition of this well-loved text builds on its successful previous
editions and is replete with changes that are current with today’s
trends and practices in the field:
• As the inclusion movement continues to expand, the authors have revised several chapters to detail relevant inclusion practices and applications
in both physical education and sport, helping to integrate students
with disabilities into regular class and sport settings with guidelines
for modifying activities.
• The chapter on adapted sport is further developed to communicate and reflect on progress in the field and includes a Sport Framework for Individuals with Disabilities model to help develop and implement sport programs.
• The book gives attention to the revised Brockport Physical Fitness Test,
and the accompanying web resource offers video clips that explain and
demonstrate the criterion-referenced health-related tests that are
applicable to many students with disabilities.
• Advances and applications pertaining to behavior management and wheelchair sport performance are covered in various chapters.
• The authors address the use of new technology
as it relates to teaching and administration for adapted physical
education and explore stand-alone apps that can be used in conjunction
with the book that are useful in behavior management, fitness
development, communication, social interaction, and physical education
activities.
• The authors give increased attention to the problem of obesity, particularly relevant to students with disabilities.
• Many new authors and a coeditor
have been brought on board, bringing fresh perspectives to the book and
adding to the depth of experience provided by the returning authors and
editor.
These additions help Adapted Physical Education and Sport maintain its reputation as a comprehensive, user-friendly text that
helps teachers provide top-quality services to people with unique
physical education needs. Greatly influenced by the Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act, this book helps in identifying the unique
needs of students and developing physical education programs, including
individualized education programs (IEPs) for students with disabilities,
that are consistent with current federal legislation.
STRONG ANCILLARIES
The text is augmented by its ancillaries, which include an instructor guide, test package, presentation package, and web resource with video. The instructor guide
offers chapter objectives, additional resources, and learning and
enrichment activities that will help students master the content and
extend their knowledge. The test package helps in building custom
tests using hundreds of test questions and answers. You will find
hundreds of PowerPoint slides that reinforce the text’s key points in
the presentation package, and the web resource includes 26 videos of the new Brockport Physical Fitness Test in action as well as several reproducibles from the book.
DEEPENED UNDERSTANDING
The authors, renowned authorities in their fields, use real-life
scenarios to introduce chapter concepts and then show how to apply the
concepts in solving issues. The text will help deepen understanding of
the implications of disabilities for people through age 21 (though much
of the book is relevant in the entire life span). It grounds readers in
the foundational topics for adapted physical education and sport,
explores the developmental considerations involved, and outlines
activities for developing programs for people with unique physical
education needs.
The book offers a four-color design to draw
attention to important elements and provides separate author and subject
indexes as well as resources with each chapter and on the web resource
for further exploration.
Adapted Physical Education and Sport supplies
all that is needed for enriching the lives of students with
disabilities by providing them with the high-quality programs they
deserve.
