Ch 4Physical Education & Sports for CWSN (Children With Special Needs) — Class 11 Physical Education, concept-first.

Every child has the right to move, play and take part in sport. When a child has a special need — a long-term limitation of the body, the mind, the senses or of learning — that right does not disappea…

Parents of a child with special needs are often confronted with a whole vocabulary for describing the child's challenges, and the same challenge is sometimes called a disorder and sometimes a disabili…

The term disorder refers to a disruption or disturbance of the normal functioning of the body. In medical terms a disorder is best thought of as a characteristic — a clinically significant disturbance…

Disability is an integral part of human life. Almost every one of us has, at some point, faced a temporary or permanent impairment that made some activity difficult.

Having met the idea of disability, we can now define it more exactly and see how it is classified. It helps first to separate three terms that are often run together:

Our understanding of disability — and the very words we use for it — has changed a great deal over the last few decades.

A physical disability is the long-term loss or impairment of part of an individual's body function, resulting in a limitation of physical functioning, mobility, dexterity or stamina.

Intellectual disability is a condition of significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning that also affects adaptive behaviour.

A person with a learning disability (also called a cognitive disability) has trouble remembering, learning new things, concentrating, or making decisions that affect everyday life.

The causes of disability and disorder can be understood in two complementary ways: first by when they act (before, during or after birth), and then by the kind of factor involved.

Disability etiquette is a set of guidelines dealing specifically with how to approach a person with a disability — how to communicate and interact with them respectfully and courteously.

Children with special needs face real barriers to ordinary, unrestricted physical education — but the answer is not to exclude them.

Adapted Physical Education (APE) is the art and science of developing, implementing and monitoring a carefully designed physical-education instructional programme for a learner with a disability, base…

The chief aim of Adapted Physical Education is to provide every individual an opportunity to participate in physical education and sports, and to make physical education accessible to all, as per thei…

Adapted Physical Education works towards its aim through the following objectives:

Children with special needs form one of the largest groups still outside the fold of the general education system, and Inclusive Education gives them the opportunity to enter formal schooling.

This unit established how physical education includes Children With Special Needs (CWSN, or Divyang) with dignity and success. The key ideas, in the order the textbook teaches them: