Inclusive Practices in Educational Contexts

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The teaching methods include the exposure of theoretical and theoretical-practical topics through professor lectures and audiovisual and interactive media and practical and oral presentations by the students. In each topic, students are encouraged to solve problems and fieldwork related to specific scenarios.

Learning Outcomes

To promote theoretical and the practical knowledge in planning inclusive physical and sports activities and to develop in students the competencies to organize and to implement sports programs appropriate to the functional profile of people with special needs, in an inclusive context.

The student should acquire the following learning outcomes:

- Recognize inclusion models on adaptation of sport activities;

- Master the definition, classification and etiology of special needs and to adapt educational equipment and resources and to apply the specific strategies according to the population profile;

- Promote sport activities appropriate to the psychomotor skills of the performers, in the inclusive context.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Inclusion spectrum and adaptation models on inclusive physical activities

- Inclusive practices in adapted physical activities for people with special needs (sensory impairments - hearing and visual; physical disabilities; intellectual disabilities; development disorders and autism):

   - Definition and etiology;

   - Classification and functional profile;

   - Teaching strategies and adaptations in inclusive physical activities;

   - Adapted physical fitness tests.

   - Presentation of physical and sport activities aimed to include people with special needs.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria João Carvalheiro Campos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Frequency: 50.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 50.0%

Bibliography

-APCC (2006). Desporto para Deficientes - Manual para Acompanhantes Desportivos. APCC- Núcleo Regional do Centro, Leonardo da Vinci projectos-piloto.

- Handicap International (2007). Sport and Fun for All. Handicap International Bangladesh Program. http://unescoittralee.com/repository/articles/ . http://www.asksource.info/resources/sport-and-fun-all-a-way-persons-disabilities-be-included-community-life 

- NCSS & SDSC (2015). Let’s Play Together! A fun and simple guide to conduct inclusive games for all. http://unescoittralee.com/repository/articles/

- Rasmussen, T., Wiedemann, N., Kryger, L., Koenen, K., Trimmel, J. & Boersma, M. (2015). Different. Just like you: A psychosocial approach promoting the inclusion of persons with disabilities. PS Centre.

- Sherrill, C. (2004). Adapted Physical Activity , Recreation and Sport. 6th Ed. McGraw-Hill.

-Winnick, J.P. & Poretta, D. L. (2017). Adapted Physical Education and Sport. 6th Ed. Human Kinetics.