adaptive PE

Adaptive P.E.–making physical education fun for students with disabilities

Thursday, October 29th, 2009 | Adaptive clothing and gear, Equipment, Special Education, Wheelchair | 3 Comments

Quincy’s class has been bowling all month for adaptive PE. It has been such a blast watching the competition…which is quite fierce, I might add. What I love the most about these types of adaptive PE activities is that they are geared just for students with disability. Sometimes there is value in mainstreaming disabled kids and sometimes there is great value in designing activities just for them. Everyone is having fun, doing there best, using the adaptive equipment without people staring…it’s just a good time.

Pictured below is Quincy with her aide, Bonnie. You can see that a ramp is pushed up to her wheelchair so she can just push the ball down the alley. It’s a pretty cool set-up!