Syllabus
Lectures:
1. Introduction to the field of APA. Importance of APE and APA.
2. Basic terminology.
3. History of physical activity and sport of people with specific needs.
4. National and international organizations.
5. Psychosocial aspects of disability and adapted physical activities.
6. Communication with people with specific needs.
7. Evaluation before exercise program, exercise regimen.
8. Classification for elite sport.
9. Integration and inclusion.
10. Principles of adaptation.
11. Compensatory aids for the sport of people with specific needs.
12. Selected summer sports in Paralympic movement.
13. Selected winter sports in Paralympic movement.
14. Management of sport for people with specific needs. Seminars:
1. Possibilities of adjusting physical activities in practice.
2. Sport of people with visual impairment. Biomedical characteristic (causes, consequences and specific aspects of visual disability). Indications and contraindications of physical activity. Case reports
3. Sport of people with hearing loss. As above.
4. Sport of people after cerebral palsy.
5. Sport of people after spinal cord injuries.
6. Sport of people with amputation and dysmelia.
7. Sport of people with mental retardation.
8. Sport of people with autism.
9. Sport of people with learning disabilities.
10. Sport of people with civilization diseases (cardiovascular, metabolic ….).
11. Sport in senior age.
12. –
14. Visit in a disability sport club; practical demonstration.
Annotation
This subject aims to show adapted physical activities as a complex way of an active lifestyle for people with disabilities. It introduces basic aspects of disability and handicap (integration, adaptation, sport organizations, psychosocial area) and describes biomedical aspects and possibilities of physical activity for people with particular disability or handicap.