Inclusive Activity Modifications for Participation in Sports and Physical Education
This guide explores ways to modify physical activities to ensure participation and success for all students. It includes strategies such as changing task demands (e.g., visual cues instead of auditory), adjusting equipment (like lowering basketball hoops), and altering rules to foster cooperation. It emphasizes the importance of modifying any aspect of an activity—rules, scoring, groupings, and more. A developmental task analysis is highlighted as a method for examining modifications. Various examples and resource websites are provided for further exploration.
Inclusive Activity Modifications for Participation in Sports and Physical Education
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Modifying Activities • Modifications should enable all to participate: • Change task demands for example • visual instead of auditory cues • limit running demands • lower the basketball hoop height • Change rules (allow double dribbles, promote cooperation instead of competition) • Use an assistive device (walkers, crutches, wheelchairs, peer buddy)
What to modify? • REMEMBER, you may modify ANY portion of an activity including rules, equipment, scoring, groupings, pace, etc to promote student success and learning.
What to Modify - Examples • Rules • Affective environment • Amount of time • Equipment used • Partner (group) work/size • Size of objects • Teaching style: command, practice, self-selection • Provide a list of tasks to complete (PSI) • Position of student for ease of feedback and monitoring
What to Modify - Examples • Distance • Speed (walk, power walk, jog, run) – both offensive and defensive • Scoring (how score, point value, etc) • Passing (can be intercepted?) • Offensive/defensive strategies and points for use • Size of playing area • Number of passes or touches • Substitutes for players
What to Modify - Examples • How start each game? • Accuracy required • Length of striking implement • Trajectory of ball (rolling, bouncing, in air) • Zone around student (how close can other students get?) • Size of goal • Many other examples
Developmental Task Analysis • One of the best ways to examine how you can modify a task is to perform a task analysis. • Developmental task analysis outlines all of the task and environmental factors that influence the performance of students in the general movement categories (e.g., throw, strike, jump). • Under each of these factors, modifications are given, from the simplest to the most difficult. • Internet – great place to start • http://edweb6.educ.msu.edu/kin866/default.htm
Helpful Document • Modifications for specific activities
Group Practice • Select activities from list • Create a developmental task analysis • Example from badminton • Group work form
Resource Websites • http://www.specialolympics.org/Special+Olympics+Public+Website/English/Coach/Coaching_Guides/default.htm • http://www.twu.edu/inspire/modifications.htm • http://www.pecentral.org/adapted/adaptedactivities.html • Many others via google
