Individualized Education Programs (I.E.P.s), as specified by PL 94-142, attempt to guarantee that a person's past, present, and future needs are accounted for in their education. The author argues that persons responsible for I.E.P.s could profit from a developmental perspective. (MT)

Developed as part of the Physical Education In-Service Training Project of the University of Kentucky, this manual is designed to help special education teachers and adapted physical education teachers promote the motor and play skills of handicapped students through planned activities. Content areas of the manual were identified as "greatest…

Results of comprehensive needs assessments conducted in 1980 and 1988 were compared relative to appropriate physical education for handicapped students as mandated by PL 94-142. A direct, self-report methodology was used covering various dimensions of teacher needs. Although there was a significant improvement of the teachers who had served on a…

To comply with the Education for the Handicapped Act, comprehensive needs assessments were conducted in Ohio relative to appropriate physical education programming in the least restrictive environment. Results from an assessment in an urban school district confirmed the belief that physical education teachers did not possess needed competencies…

One of five volumes intended to help teachers of mainstreamed handicapped students, the book presents twelve papers on physical education instruction. The following titles and authors are included: "The Heartbreak of Kickball, Dodgeball, and Drop the Hankie--Elementary School Physical Education--The Bases for the Basics" (R. Benton); "Shared…

This book provides programming ideas, methods, strategies, and adaptations of the learning environment for implementing physical education programs for handicapped students. Part I, "Legislation and the Challenge," introduces Public Law 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, its mandates, and its procedures for…

This report summarizes activities of a three-year project whose major goals were as follows: (1) Developing an individualized modular program for inservice professional preparation of physical educators and other professionals in the motor performance assessment of handicapped students whose primary language is English, Spanish, or Vietnamese; (2)…

This document is designed to assist physical education teachers to design curricula which can help students with learning disabilities, emotional impairments, and educable mental impairments achieve Michigan's essential goals and objectives for physical education. Chapter I discusses legal mandates, terminology, movement characteristics of the…

This manual is designed to assist Colorado personnel in developing and providing adapted physical education, occupational therapy, and physical therapy to Colorado public school students who have needs in the motor area. Guidelines are presented that have been developed to focus on the problems encountered by students with needs in the physical…