Adapted Physical Activity: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Front Matter....Pages I-XIX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Adapted Physical Activity — Terminology and Concepts....Pages 3-9
Comments on Adapted Physical Activity — Terminology and Concepts....Pages 11-13
Adapted Physical Activity — An Interdisciplinary Approach. Premises, Methods, and Procedures....Pages 15-22
Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Adapted Physical Activity....Pages 23-28
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
Fitness and Health....Pages 31-36
Matching the Activity to Ability — Criteria for Selecting the Physical Education Programme....Pages 37-41
The Concept of Empowerment in Rehabilitative Sports....Pages 43-51
Physical Activity of Finnish Adults Studied According to Age, Sex, and Place of Residence....Pages 53-58
Physical Activity in the Lives of Three Mentally Handicapped Adults....Pages 59-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Sports for Athletes with Disabilities: Future Considerations....Pages 65-73
A Comparison Between the Psychological Profiles of Wheelchair Athletes, Wheelchair Nonathletes, and Able-Bodied Athletes....Pages 75-79
The Development from a Medical Classification to a Player Classification in Wheelchair Basketball....Pages 81-86
The Mechanical Power Output of World Class Wheelchair Athletes....Pages 87-91
A Kinematic Analysis of Wheelchair Propulsion....Pages 93-99
Track Wheelchair Ergometry: Effects of Handrim Diameter on Metabolic Responses....Pages 101-107
Table Tennis for Wheelchair Users....Pages 109-114
Winter Sports for Wheelchair Users....Pages 115-118
Training Methods for High Performance Disabled Athletes....Pages 119-124
The Effects of Weight Training and Flexibility Exercising on the Strength, Range of Motion, and Spasticity/Muscle Tone of Elite Cerebral Palsy Athletes....Pages 125-129
Role Conflict in a Sport Psychologist: Working with Athletes or Special Needs Populations....Pages 131-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Acceptance and Access by Accentuation of Ability....Pages 137-143
Training the Non Disabled to Interact Positively with the Disabled....Pages 145-147
Attitudes of Selected College Students Toward Including Disabled Individuals in Integrated Settings....Pages 149-157
Downstream or Upstream with Mainstreaming? — Handicapped Students at Finnish Secondary Schools....Pages 159-165
Moving Into Mainstreaming — An Integrated Approach to Adapted Physical Education....Pages 167-170
Effects of an Integrated Adapted Physical Education Program on Psychomotor and Cognitive Parameters of Mentally Retarded Adolescents....Pages 171-175
Integrating Physically Handicapped into Sport: Judo....Pages 177-181
A Ball Game for Teams of Blind and Seeing Children: Circle Goal Ball....Pages 183-187
Theater and Handicap: Summertheater Dandelion Blossom....Pages 189-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
United States Congressional Legislation Affecting Physical Education for the Handicapped....Pages 195-200
Methodological Considerations in Program Development....Pages 201-205
Program Validation Through Systematic Data Recording....Pages 207-211
A Comparison of Behavior Chaining Techniques for Teaching Motor Fitness Skills to Individuals with Severe Mental Retardation....Pages 213-219
Psychomotor Therapy and Adapted Physical Activity: Defining the Concepts....Pages 221-225
Common Features of Different Types of Movement Education and Movement Therapy....Pages 227-231
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Adapted Physical Education: The Role of the Teacher and Pedagogical Practices....Pages 235-243
Effective Teaching in Adapted Physical Education....Pages 245-250
Critical Results Regarding Motor Development in Infants — Do We Have to Reconsider Our Concepts of Movement Education?....Pages 251-256
Meaning of Play: What Patterns in Behavior Suggest for Adaptation of Educational and Therapeutic Practice....Pages 257-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
A Comparative Study Between 1973 and 1986 on the Level of Physical Fitness and Ability of Physically Handicapped Students in the Junior Middle Schools, Taiwan, Republic of China....Pages 267-274
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Exercise Therapy in Disability....Pages 275-279
Effects of Physical Exercise in Adolescents with Down’s Syndrome....Pages 281-287
Effect of a 7-Month Run/Walk Program on the Physiological Fitness Parameters of Adults with Mental Retardation....Pages 289-298
Long-Term Cardiovascular and Metabolic Adaptation to Bedside Ergometer Training in Hemodialysis Patients....Pages 299-304
Analysis of Hoffmann Reflexes and Muscular Responses Following Exercise and Massage on M. Soleus in Women with Cerebral Palsy....Pages 305-308
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Movement Therapy and Physical Activities after Breast Cancer....Pages 311-316
Movement Therapy in the Aftercare of Psychiatric Patients — Structure and Organization of a Rural Model Project....Pages 317-321
Influence of Sport Treatment on Central Parameters of Depression — A Case Study from the Berlin Project “Sports and Mental Health”....Pages 323-331
Psychological Effects on Patients with Myocardial Infarction after a Dynamic Exercise Training During Rehabilitation....Pages 333-337
The Dosage of Exercise Intensity According to the Exertion Perceived by Female Patients with Myocardial Infarction....Pages 339-343
Biosignal Processing: An Electromyographic Biofeedback-Aided Therapy in Spastic Hemiparesis....Pages 345-348
Muscular Dystrophy: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Activity Programming....Pages 349-354
Front Matter....Pages 355-355
Adapted Gait of the Blind....Pages 357-361
The World Behind Our Heads: A Problem for Deaf Children?....Pages 363-366
Evaluating the Body Experience of Patients with Eating Disorders Through Video Confrontation — An Evaluation Protocol....Pages 367-371
Movement and Play Related Environmental Analysis of Educationally Handicapped and Learning Disabled Children as a Basis for Psychomotor Programs....Pages 373-378
Marker Variables for Early Identification of Physically Awkward Children....Pages 379-386
Front Matter....Pages 387-387
The Measurement of Motor Abilities: Developments, Problems, and Alternatives....Pages 389-394
Assessing the Gross Motor Skill Development of Special Education Students....Pages 395-399
Issues in Assessment of Physical Fitness with People Who are Severely Handicapped....Pages 401-406
Front Matter....Pages 387-387
Motor Function Assessment Scale....Pages 407-411
Observation of Motor Behaviour in the Daily Life of Cerebral Palsied Children....Pages 413-418
Relationship Between Spatial Body Representation and Motor Control in Children with Cerebral Palsy....Pages 419-424
Diagnosis of Selected Motor Coordination Abilities of Elderly Adults....Pages 425-434
Development and Reliability of a Sports Motor Test for Elderly People....Pages 435-438
Front Matter....Pages 439-439
Design of a Static Wheelchair Ergometer: Preliminary Results....Pages 441-446
Technical and Physical Aspects as a Prerequisite for Successful Wheelchair Sports....Pages 447-451
Research on the Optimal Rotation Velocity by Adjustment of the Tennis Wheelchair....Pages 453-461
Auditory and Tactile Scoring Aids for Visually Impaired Bowlers....Pages 463-468
The Load upon the Artifical Hip Joint During Cycling....Pages 469-474
Dynamic Orthoses for Children with Meningomyelocele....Pages 475-481
Back Matter....Pages 482-488