Adapted Physical Activity : An Interdisciplinary Approach

Contributions from the 7th International Symposium on Adapted Physical Activity, Berlin, 1989. The book serves the professional as a guide to this new field and a source for developing new goals and strategies.

1 Adapted Physical Activity: An Interdisciplinary Approach.- Adapted Physical Activity ― Terminology and Concepts.- Comments on Adapted Physical Activity ― Terminology and Concepts.- Adapted Physical Activity ― An Interdisciplinary Approach. Premises, Methods, and Procedures.- Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Adapted Physical Activity.- 2 Sports for All.- Fitness and Health.- Matching the Activity to Ability ― Criteria for Selecting the Physical Education Programme.- The Concept of Empowerment in Rehabilitative Sports.- Physical Activity of Finnish Adults According to Age, Sex, and Place of Residence.- Physical Activity in the Lives of Three Mentally Handicapped Adults.- 3 Sports for Athletes with Disabilities.- Sports for Athletes with Disabilities: Future Considerations.- A Comparison Between the Psychological Profiles of Wheelchair Athletes, Wheelchair Nonathletes, and Able-Bodied Athletes.- The Development from a Medical Classification to a Player Classification in Wheelchair Basketball.- The Mechanical Power Output of World Class Wheelchair Athletes.- A Kinematic Analysis of Wheelchair Propulsion.- Track Wheelchair Ergometry: Effects of Handrim Diameter on Metabolic Responses.- Table Tennis for Wheelchair Users.- Winter Sports for Wheelchair Users.- Training Methods for High Performance Disabled Athletes.- The Effects of Weight Training and Flexibility Exercising on the Strength, Range of Motion, and Spasticity/Muscle Tone of Elite Cerebral Palsy Athletes.- Role Conflict in a Sport Psychologist: Working with Athletes or Special Needs Populations.- 4 Integration and Social Acceptance.- Acceptance and Access by Accentuation of Ability.- Training the Non-Disabled to Interact Positively with the Disabled.- Attitudes of Selected College Students Toward Including Disabled Individuals in Integrated Settings.- Downstream or Upstream with Mainstreaming? ― Handicapped Students at Finnish Secondary Schools.- Moving Into Mainstreaming ― An Integrated Approach to Adapted Physical Education.- Effects of an Integrated Adapted Physical Education Program on Psychomotor and Cognitive Parameters of Mentally Retarded Adolescents.- Integrating Physically Handicapped into Sport: Judo.- A Ball Game for Teams of Blind and Seeing Children: Circle Goal Ball.- Theater and Handicap: Summertheater Dandelion Blossom.- 5 Educational and Philosophical Aspects.- United States Congressional Legislation Affecting Physical Education for the Handicapped.- Methodological Considerations in Program Development.- Program Validation Through Systematic Data Recording.- A Comparison for Behavior Chaining Techniques for Teaching Motor Fitness Skills to Individuals with Severe Mental Retardation.- Psychomotor Therapy and Adapted Physical Activity: Defining the Concepts.- Common Features of Different Types of Movement Education and Movement Therapy.- 6 The Role of Professionals in Adapted Physical Activity.- Adapted Physical Education: The Role of the Teacher and Pedagogical Practices.- Effective Teaching in Adapted Physical Education.- Critical Results Regarding Motor Development in Infants ― Do We Have to Reconsider Our Concepts of Movement Education?.- Meaning of Play: What Patterns in Behavior Suggest for Adaptation of Educational and Therapeutic Practice.- 7 Effects of Physical Exercise.- A Comparative Study Between 1973 and 1986 on the Level of Physical Fitness and Motor Ability of the Physically Handicapped Students in the Junior Middle Schools, Taiwan, Republic of China.- Exercise Therapy in Disability.- Effects of Physical Exercise in Adolescents with Down’s Syndrome.- Effect of a 7-Month Run/Walk Program on the Physiological Fitness Parameters of Adults with Mental Retardation.- Long-Term Cardiovascular and Metabolic Adaptation to Bedside Ergometer Training in Hemodialysis Patients.- Analysis of Hoffmann Reflexes and Muscular Responses Following Exercise and Massage on Soleus in Woman With Cerebral Palsy.- 8 Physical Activity as Therapy.- Movement Therapy and Physical Activities After Breast Cancer.- Movement Therapy in the Aftercare of Psychiatric Patients ― Structure and Organization of a Rural Model Project.- Influence of Sport Treatment on Central Parameters of Depression ― A Case Study from the Berlin Project “Sports and Mental Health”.- Psycholgical Effects on Patients with Myocardial Infarction After a Dynamic Exercise Training During Rehabilitation.- The Dosage of Exercise Intensity According to the Exertion Perceived by Female Patients with Myocardial Infarction.- Biosignal Processing: an Electromyographic Biofeedback-Aided Therapy in Spastic Hemiparesis.- Muscular Dystrophy: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Activity Programming.- 9 Human Movement Analysis.- Adapted Gait of the Blind.- The World Behind Our Heads: A Problem for Deaf Children?.- Evaluating the Body Experience of Patients with Eating Disorders Through Video Confrontation ― An Evaluation Protocol.- Movement and Play Related Environmental Analysis of Educationally Handicapped and Learning Disabled Children as a Basis for Psychomotor Programs.- Marker Variables for Early Identification of Physically Awkward Children.- 10 Assessment.- The Measurement of Motor Abilities: Developments, Problems, and Alternatives.- Assessing the Gross Motor Skill Development of Special Education Students.- Issues in Assessment of Physical Fitness with People Who are Severely Handicapped.- Motor Function Assessment Scale.- Observation of Motor Behavior in the Daily Life of Cerebral Palsied Children.- Relationship Between Spatial Body Representation and Motor Control in Children with Cerebral Palsy.- Diagnosis of Selected Motor Coordination Abilities of Elderly Adults.- Development and Reliability of a Sports Motor Test for Elderly People.- 11 Technological Advances.- Design of a Static Wheelchair Ergometer: Preliminary Results.- Technical and Physical Aspects as a Prerequisite for Successful Wheelchair Sports.- Research on the Optimal Rotation Velocity by Adjustment of a Tennis Wheelchair.- Auditory and Tactile Scoring Aids for Visually Impaired Bowlers.- The Load Upon the Artificial Hip Joint During Cycling.- Dynamic Ortheses for Children with Meningomyelocele.- Appendix: International Federation of Adapted Physical Activity (IFAPA), 7th International Symposium 1989.