Welcome to another edition of 'Adapted Physical Education' at PELINKS4U. We hope you will find this 'fall potpourri' of information helpful as you start your fall semester. Please help us to keep this page beneficial by sending us feedback, questions, and contributions. Sue Tarr, Ph.D. Adapted Section Editor

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Start school off with 'Disability Awareness in Physical Activity'. All students can benefit from information and activities regarding people with disabilities. This site provides a variety of activities that can be conducted over a number of days (4-5) within physical education classes. Check it out!!! For younger children a disability awareness site can provide information about people with disabilities. Users of this site can also obtain answers to a number of questions regarding disability. Young children will love the colorful, interactive site. Too powerful of an awareness site!!! High school students in New York have composed articles addressing 'disability'. This site can definitely provide insight to all of us in light of the latest conflicts of our nation! How about trying some creative activities with your students? Dance as a form of physical activity for students with disabilities has MANY benefits, especially for the affective learning domain! Check out 'Groupie Dances', 'Social and World Dances' from the Project INSPIRE web page. The directions for the dances, possible music, the movement steps, and adaptations for movement steps are provided. A more broad-base site for the arts is published by the National Arts and Disability Center. This site provides a wealth of information about dance and other performing arts. Options in the site include: a resource database for art classes, art services, and funding sources; a library with links to articles and annotated bibliographies; a variety of 'arts' topics; links to visual arts, galleries & exhibitions, and artists; and an on-line gallery of artists who are disabled and their work. Looking for dance groups/companies to perform in your area? Check out this site for a listing of nine groups/companies. Their web pages provide the history of their group, a list of performers, their upcoming performances, and details of how you might book them for a performance within your community.

Play practice: The games approach to teaching and coaching sports. Launder, A. G. (2001). After hearing Alan Launder speak at the International Conference 2001: Teaching Games for Understanding in Physical Education and Sport, I recommend this book for anyone who works with youth, able-bodied or disabled. Launder presents the approach, 'play practice' as a way to teach game play first instead of the traditional skill approach. By using this approach in teaching and coaching, ALL students can enhance their understanding of game concepts, thus increasing their success level.

Extreme Sports???

Don't let a disability stop you! Awesome pictures of kayaking, mountain biking, water skiing, and much more. There is NO end to the possibilities of sport for the disabled. Check out this link!

FYI

Fall Conferences/Workshops for Adapted Physical Education Visit this link!

Contribute YOUR Ideas

If you have ideas, comments, letters to share, or questions about particular topics, please email one of the following Adapted PE Section Editors:

	Carol Huettig
	Cindy Piletic
	Kristi Roth
	Chris Stopka
	Sue Tarr