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Adapted physical education

Advanced Physical Education

Useful for: OSSC RHT — Regular High School Teacher, OSSC Physical Education Instructor, OSSSC Govt Physical Education Teacher (PET), SSB PET

Overview

Adapted physical education modifies activities, rules and equipment so that learners with disabilities participate fully and safely.

Key points

  • Adapted PE follows the inclusion principle of the RPWD Act (2016).
  • Modifications can change rules, equipment, space, time or teams.
  • The Paralympic Games are for elite athletes with disabilities.
  • Special Olympics (founded 1968) serves people with intellectual disabilities.
  • Individual plans set achievable goals.
  • Safety and dignity are central.

Explanation

  • Peer buddies support inclusion.
  • Unified sports mix athletes with and without disabilities.
  • Teachers should focus on ability, not limitation.
  • Accessible facilities are essential.
  • Assessment adapts to individual goals.

Step by step

  1. Identify the concept, rule or fact asked.
  2. Recall the definition, formula, example or year.
  3. Apply it and eliminate mismatched options.

Examples

  • Using a larger, softer ball for a student with low vision → equipment modification.
  • Allowing a seated volleyball game → rule and space modification.
  • A team with athletes with and without intellectual disabilities → unified sports.

Traps and advanced points

  • Trap: Excluding learners with disabilities.
  • Trap: Mixing Paralympics and Special Olympics.
  • Trap: Same goals for everyone.

Quick revision

  • Modify rules, equipment, space.
  • Special Olympics 1968.
  • RPWD inclusion.

Practice MCQs

  1. Adapted PE follows the inclusion principle of the —

    1. IT Act, 2000
    2. RTE Act only
    3. Factories Act
    4. RPWD Act, 2016

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    Answer: (d) RPWD Act, 2016. RPWD Act.

  2. Special Olympics was founded in —

    1. 1948
    2. 1960
    3. 1968
    4. 1988

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    Answer: (c) 1968. 1968.

  3. Special Olympics serves people with —

    1. intellectual disabilities
    2. only visual impairment
    3. only elite athletes
    4. no disabilities

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    Answer: (a) intellectual disabilities. Intellectual disabilities.

  4. The Paralympic Games are for —

    1. amateurs only
    2. elite athletes with disabilities
    3. children only
    4. veterans only

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    Answer: (b) elite athletes with disabilities. Elite sport.

  5. Using a larger, softer ball for a child with low vision is a modification of —

    1. nothing
    2. equipment
    3. rules only
    4. time only

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    Answer: (b) equipment. Equipment change.

  6. Adapted PE can modify rules, equipment, space, time and —

    1. teams
    2. grades
    3. fees
    4. uniform colour

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    Answer: (a) teams. Five areas.

  7. Individual plans in adapted PE set —

    1. only grades
    2. achievable goals
    3. impossible goals
    4. no goals

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    Answer: (b) achievable goals. Personalised goals.

  8. Central values in adapted PE are —

    1. exclusion
    2. punishment
    3. safety and dignity
    4. speed and winning only

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    Answer: (c) safety and dignity. Safety and dignity.

  9. Excluding a child with a disability from PE class is —

    1. against the inclusion principle
    2. required
    3. safe
    4. inclusive

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    Answer: (a) against the inclusion principle. Inclusion is required.

  10. Wheelchair basketball is an example of —

    1. adapted sport
    2. traditional sport only
    3. banned sport
    4. yoga

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    Answer: (a) adapted sport. Adapted rules and equipment.

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