Lecture #6 Adaptations Flashcards
What is the Inclusion Belief?
All have the right to enjoy an active living lifestyle. Activity selection should be based on interests and preferences.
Adapt/Adaptation:
- To make suitable, to adjust, or to modify in accordance with individual needs
- a purposeful change made to promote the achievement of goals
Why do we adapt?
To make easy:
- learning
- participation
- success
- acceptance
- normalization
Are interventions designed to make everyone equally skillful?
False
Are interventions designed to make it possible for everyone to engage in a range of similar tasks (tasks that are designated as normal for a culture).
True
What are the benefits of promoting participation in normalized activities for individuals with impairments?
- High visibility = High value
- Integration = everyone feels included
- opportunities to fit in
- A lot of available resources and we know a lot in this field
What are the harms of promoting participation in normalized activities for individuals with impairments?
- individual’s need not being fully met
- no actual full participation
- feeling pressured to fit in
- because of limited choices, you will have to join even if you dont like it
- Not being valued as much and seeing the APA negatively
- Rigid norms, if changed it could devalue the people or the activity itself, (eg. ballet)
Ecological Task Analysis (ETA) Model includes:
- Task/ Activity
- Personal/ Individual
- Environment/ Context
Where can the Ecological Task Analysis (ETA) Model be used?
- community soccer, physical education classroom…
What is an Ecological task analysis (ETA) Model?
It is an alternative to traditional approaches to teaching physical education. It is designed to provide strategies for individualizing instruction, to provide students with choices, to enhance decision making, to increase teacher observation, and to foster discovery.
What do you ask in an Ecological task analysis (ETA) Model?
- What is needed to do the task?
- What could be adapted?
Examples of Physical Environment Variables
- Space
- Surface
- Lighting
- Sound
- Temperature/ Humidity
- Built-in/ Permanent equipment
Examples of Social Environment Variables
- Cooperative or competitive
- Structured or unstructured
- Working with people you know or strangers
- Positive or negative attitudes
- Spectators
- Coaches, teachers, leaders, other participants…
Examples of Task Variables
- Complexity (i.e. movement patterns, rules, etc.)
- Speed
- Force
- Height
- Timing
- Distance
- Direction
- Accuracy
- Manipulatable Equipment
Manipulatable Equipment (Task)
- Size
- Weight
- Color
- Surface
- Texture
- Sound
- Shape
- Movement/trajectory
