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Reframing Disability and Movement through a Multidisciplinary Model
Physical Education/Health, Special Needs, Equity | Pre-K-12
The social model of inclusion posits that individuals are not disabled by physical or intellectual impairments, but by a society that does not account for their differences. Accounting for differences in the physical education classroom can be challenging, but with the right frameworks and strategies, you can create lessons that help students of all abilities succeed.
In this course, you will explore the anatomical, behavioral, and cognitive characteristics of common disabilities so that you can more effectively communicate, instruct, and modify lessons to reach students who have these diagnoses. You’ll examine the evolution of the definition of disability, as well as the medical and social models of disability, with particular emphasis on the limitations of the medical model. In addition, you’ll see how disability is an interaction between biological, psychological, and sociological systems and how you can apply these concepts to create a more inclusive and accessible classroom and curriculum.
Using the concepts and resources from this course, you will help more students access curriculum and be successful in an inclusive physical education classroom.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Opportunities to examine and reframe your mindset towards disability
- Tools to examine barriers and facilitators to success in physical education for all students
- Strategies to design instruction that emphasizes inclusion in physical education
- Ideas for developing more inclusive physical education environments and experiences
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Evaluate the Social Model of Disability to establish the most equitable experiences for each student.
- Apply a multidisciplinary lens to accessibility in the physical education curriculum.
- Outline best practices to develop inclusive classroom environments and lessons.
- Examine characteristics of common diagnoses and how they influence the ways that students access the curriculum.
- Individualize activities and assignments to account for the anatomical, behavioral, and cognitive characteristics of students with disabilities.
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