Physical Education and Sports for People with Visual Impairments and Deafblindness: Foundations of Instruction
- ISBN-10
- 0891284540
- ISBN-13
- 9780891284543
- Category
- Physical education for the blind
- Pages
- 396
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- American Foundation for the Blind
- Authors
- Lauren J. Lieberman, Paul E. Ponchillia, Susan Kay Vlahas Ponchillia
Description
From three prominent educators and athletes comes this important new sourcebook on teaching the skills that will enable both children and adults with visual impairments and deafblindness to participate in physical education, recreation, sports, and lifelong health and fitness activities.Physical Education and Sports for People with Visual Impairments and Deafblindness includes methods of modifying physical skills instruction; techniques for adapting sports and other physical activities; teaching methods and curriculum points for physical skills instruction throughout the lifespan; and information about sports and related activities, providing rules, adaptations, and information about competition options. It is an ideal manual for physical educators, adapted physical education specialists, teachers of students with visual impairments, orientation and mobility specialists, occupational and recreational therapists, and anyone else interested in sports and recreation for persons who are visually impaired or deafblind.
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