This new edition of Teaching Disability Sport: A Guide for Physical Educators is loaded with five new chapters, more than 200 games and skills, and everything that future and current teachers need to plan and implement sport skill-related lessons in an inclusive physical education program.
Published in its first edition as Inclusion Through Sports, this rendition places greater emphasis on preparing future physical education teachers to use disability sport in their programs. It offers instruction on the various aspects of disability sport, how to teach it, and how to improve programming for students, regardless of ability or disability.
This new edition includes the following features:
A DVD that contains video clips of activities as well as assessment forms and other reproducible forms
Templates for and guidance in creating individualized education programs (IEPs), lesson plans, assessments, and unit plans
One new sport chapter (on boccia)
Four new chapters discussing how to use the achievement-based curriculum (ABC) model to integrate disability sport into physical education classes
This book and DVD package is the ideal resource for physical education teachers who want to incorporate inclusive sport skill instruction through sports traditionally identified with disability sport programs. The sports featured in this book are wheelchair basketball, wheelchair indoor soccer, sitting volleyball, wheelchair tennis, goalball, slalom, and boccia. The games are organized by skill, so teachers can select games based on the skills they want to teach. The skills for each sport are task analyzed to help teachers address the needs of students with disabilities. Teachers will learn how to make psychomotor modifications to games to include students with and without disabilities; teachers will also learn how to involve all students in making decisions about the modifications.
The book’s ABC model guides readers through the stages of program planning, implementation planning, teaching, assessment, and evaluating. Readers are also shown how to use IEPs and develop goals and objectives for lesson plans.
In addition, Teaching Disability Sport provides instruction on wheelchair selection and fitting, equipment concerns, and Web addresses for adapted sports and activities. And an inclusion index makes selecting the right sports and games easy.
The 200+ games and activities are cross-referenced to functional profiles (low, medium, high) of students with disabilities. Teachers have the choice of which disability sports to implement and to what level. With Teaching Disability Sport, kids both with and without disabilities win!
Part I: Program Planning
Chapter 1. ABC Curriculum Model Overview
Program Planning
Assessing
Implementation Planning
Teaching
Evaluating
Summary
Chapter 2. Assessment
Educational Placement Decisions
Categories of Assessments
Creating Your Own Assessment Using This Text
Writing the IEP (Prescription) and Beginning Implementation Planning
Summary
Chapter 3. Implementation Planning, Teaching, and Evaluating
Implementation Planning
Teaching: Writing Lesson Plans
Evaluating
Modifications and Environmental Interactions
Summary
Chapter 4. Implementing Disability Sport
ABC Model: Program Planning Using the Inclusion Index
Summary
Part II: Disability Sports, Skills, and Activities
Chapter 5. Wheelchair Basics
Forward Propulsion
Stopping the Wheelchair
Backward Propulsion
Stationary Pivot (Spin)
Moving Pivot (Spin)
Social Acceptance
Summary
Chapter 6. Wheelchair Basketball
Description of the Sport
Skills to Be Taught
Functional Profiles and General Modifications
Game Progressions
Games-by-Skill-Level Index: Low-Functioning Students
Game Descriptions
Games-by-Skill-Level Index: Moderate- to High-Functioning Students
Game Descriptions
Chapter 7. Indoor Wheelchair Soccer
Description of the Sport
Skills to Be Taught
Functional Profiles and General Modifications
Game Progressions
Games-by-Skill-Level Index: Low-Functioning Students
Game Descriptions
Games-by-Skill-Level Index: Moderate- to High-Functioning Students
Game Descriptions
Chapter 8. Sitting Volleyball
Description of the Sport
Skills to Be Taught
Functional Profiles and General Modifications
Game Progressions
Games-by-Skill-Level Index: Low-Functioning Students
Game Descriptions
Games-by-Skill-Level Index: Moderate- to High-Functioning Students
Game Descriptions
Chapter 9. Wheelchair Tennis
Description of the Sport
Skills to Be Taught
Functional Profiles and General Modifications
Game Progressions
Games-by-Skill-Level Index: Low-Functioning Students
Game Descriptions
Games-by-Skill-Level Index: Moderate- to High-Functioning Students
Game Descriptions
Chapter 10. Goalball
Description of the Sport
Skills to Be Taught
Functional Profiles and General Modifications
Game Progressions
Games-by-Skill-Level Index: Low-Functioning Students
Game Descriptions
Games-by-Skill-Level Index: Moderate- to High-Functioning Students
Game Descriptions
Chapter 11. Slalom
Description of the Sport
Skills to Be Taught
Functional Profiles and General Modifications
Game Progressions
Games-by-Skill-Level Index
Game Descriptions
Chapter 12. Boccia
Description of the Sport
Skills to Be Taught
Functional Profiles and General Modifications
Game Progressions
Games-by-Skill-Level Index: Low-Functioning Students
Game Descriptions
Games-by-Skill-Level Index: Moderate- to High-Functioning Students
Game Descriptions
Ronald W. Davis, PhD, is a professor of adapted physical education in the department of kinesiology at Texas Women’s University. He has almost 30 years of experience in higher education promoting professional development and advocating for people with disabilities. A former disability sport coach and referee, Davis was director of athlete classification for the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics. He has also served as project director for professional preparation training grants from the U.S. Department of Education, Division of Special Education (for students studying adapted physical education).
Davis has published extensively both nationally and internationally on injuries to elite athletes with disabilities, legal mandates for those with disabilities, training for people with disabilities, and related topics. He has been president of the National Consortium for Physical Education and Recreation for Individuals with Disabilities (NCPERID) and a member of the editorial board for the Journal for Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. He enjoys biking and spending time with his family.