Physical Education and Sports
for People with Visual Impairments
and Deafblindness:
Foundations of Instruction
By Lauren J. Lieberman, Paul E. Ponchillia, and Susan V. Ponchillia
Physical activity provides benefits for children's health and fitness, and it also
helps to improve their self-esteem, feelings of competence, and relationship
skills. It is part of the expanded core curriculum that includes skills essential
for students who are visually impaired.
Participation in physical education has generally been more limited for
individuals with visual impairments than for others with typical sight. To help
close that gap, three prominent educators and athletes have created this important new sourcebook on teaching
the skills that will enable children and adults with visual impairments and deafblindness to participate in physical
education, recreation, sports, and lifelong health and fitness activities.
Physical Education and Sports provides you with this essential information:
» Teaching methods and
curriculum points for physical
skills instruction throughout the
lifespan
» Information about sports and
related activities, providing rules,
adaptations, and information
about competition options
Part 1 Visual Impairment,
Deafblindness, and Physical
Activity
Chapter 5 Principles of Adapting
Games, Sports, and Related
Activities
Chapter 1 Impact of Vision Loss
Part 3 Teaching Physical Skills
throughout the Lifespan
Chapter 9 Organized Sports for
Children and Adults with Visual
Impairments: Goalball and Beep
Baseball
» Methods of modifying physical
skills instruction
» Techniques for adapting sports
and other physical activities
Chapter 2 Visual Impairment
and Deafblindness: An Overview
Chapter 3 Providing Physical
Education to Students with Visual
Impairments or Deafblindness
Part 2 Modifications and
Adaptations for Teaching
Physical Activities
Chapter 10 Recreational Activities
and Their Adaptations: Toward a
Positive Quality of Life
Chapter 6 Early Childhood
Development by Tanni Anthony
Chapter 7 Elementary Education
Programming
Chapter 8 Physical Education and
Sports Activities in Middle School,
High School, and Adulthood
Chapter 11 Fitness: A Lifelong
Pursuit
Chapter 12 Sports and Related
Organizations of Special Interest
Chapter 4 Modifying Instruction
to Meet Students' Needs
The ideal manual for physical educators, adapted physical education specialists, teachers of students with visual
impairments, orientation and mobility specialists, occupational and recreational therapists, and anyone else
interested in sports and recreation for persons who are visually impaired or deafblind.
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