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Mi An; Reia Tanaka; Naho Hirota; Takehiro Sasai; Hideki Takahashi; Yuuya Ogawa; Shizuko Horai; Mayumi Inoue; Randeep Rakwal; Toshihiro Kato – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Purpose: Adapted physical activity (APA) provides children and youth with disabilities more opportunities to be physically active. Nevertheless, it is not well known how APA implementation in different services has benefited them. This study reviews the existing literature on APA interventions to identify characteristics and program descriptions,…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Intervention, Disabilities, Children
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McNamara, Scott; Healy, Sean; Haegele, Justin – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2021
Faced with a lack of formal professional development, physical educators are turning to social media networks (SMN) to access professional communities and informal professional development. Yet, to what extent physical educators who teach students with disabilities are using SMNs for PD purposes is currently unknown. Thus, the purpose of this…
Descriptors: Social Media, Faculty Development, Physical Education Teachers, Students with Disabilities
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Pan, Cheng-Chen; Mcnamara, Scott – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to examine the effect of an adapted physical education (APE) program on physical fitness of adolescents with intellectual disabilities, and (2) to investigate the associations between the changes of physical fitness tests over the course of a three-year period. A secondary data analysis design was used to…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Adolescents, Intellectual Disability, Students with Disabilities
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Sato, Takahiro – Journal of International Students, 2016
The purpose of this study was to describe and explain Asian international doctoral students' sojourn experiences into Adapted Physical Education (APE) programs at two universities. The participants were six doctoral students from Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. This case study was conceptualized within sojourner theory (Siu, 1952). The data…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Adapted Physical Education, Foreign Students