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Curricular Adaptations for Children with Special Needs
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
ABC Yoga
Adapt curriculum to real life sports activities
Adapt rules
Adaptive activities (limit number of repetitions)
Adaptive equipment
Address equipment issues- Size of bats/balls/netting/other
Allow water bottles
Alternate PE with sensory activities
Alternative activities allowed in one group
Alternatives to activity planned (three choices)
Audit the class
Auditory signals to cue movement
Balloons instead of balls
Basic skills
Be a spectator
Block off unused gym
Brain gym
Break skill down into step by step
Cage ball
Calming area to go to
Carpet in room- less noise
Centers
Change of environment- not in big gym
Choose favorite activity
Control environmental distractions
Cooperative games
Create encouraging, team atmosphere
Cross lateral exercises
DAPE – adaptive P.E.
DDR
Define area with tape on floor
Designated position or sub
Earplugs or headphones
Exercise to energizing music
Extended time in locker rooms
Extra appropriate activities (sand table at their height)
Extra P.E.
Extra trainer or helper
Eye toy
Finger exercises
Fitness rather than competition
Fitness room/training
Follow the leader, Simon says, etc.
Free throws
Games for social skills and other rules
Go outside
Goal setting
Golf teeing
Grade for effort
Grade level inclusion
Hat to cover eyes because of lights
Incorporate health
Keyed or word locks versus combinations
Larger equipment or modified equipment
Leisure activities
Let students choose
Limited time
Lower net (volleyball/basketball)
Map of gym
Mats in classroom
Meditation or calming after class
Model
Modeling good sportsmanship
Modified goals
Modified tests
Modified uniform- Only change shirt
Music
No dress requirement or over clothes
No whistles/clapping
Noise level reduction
Non-competitive
Nontraditional sports (bowling, skiing)
Not required to change into gym clothes
Obstacle course
Opt out
Para-assistance
PE partners
PECS to match
Peer helpers
Peer involvement
Personal space for belongings
Picture cues
Picture schedule
Planned breaks
Post rules- with pictures
Pre-rehearsal of skills, using video demonstration
Pre-teach
Pre-teaching of skills and sub-skills
Provide PE clothes
Quiet zone
Read a book on a particular sport or heroes in the sport
Relaxing music
Repetition / re-teaching
Replace typical P.E. with interests (yoga, pilates, etc.)
Responsible peer partner
Reverse inclusion
Richard Simons exercise video
Role playing
Rules on school website
Score keeper
Script before attending PE re:expectations
Self-help skills
Send rules home before activity begins
Sensory equipment
Separate locker room
Short summer course
Smaller class
Social stories
Social story of expectations
STAFF SUPPORT
Staggered dismissal
Stations to provide choice
Step by step example stations
Stretching
Student chooses activity for the class
Student led games
Study guides
Tai-chi activities
Teach games- cribbage, etc.
Teach independent activities, i.e. rowing, bike riding
Teach vocabulary
Teach with social stories
Teacher assigned teams
Teacher helper (equipment manager)
Team building games
Time keeper
Training peers
Tramp jumping with net guards or holding bar
Use extra people to help accomplish tasks
Use imagination to help visualize
Use of vibrations, sounds, textures
Use of visual cues for team identification
Use of wheelchairs, scooters and shortened distances
Use stress balls and other sensory equipment to keep them focused
Various uses of body
Video modeling of various activities
Video: From Silly to Calm
Visual aids
Visual instruction/written game rules
Visual schedule/sequence activity
Visual supports- tasks/rules/directions
Visual system for pacing games/laps/timing
Walking on track or treadmill
Warm up sensory break
Weight lifting vs. other activities
Weighted vests, wrist weights- ONLY with OT supervision
ABC Yoga
Adapt curriculum to real life sports activities
Adapt rules
Adaptive activities (limit number of repetitions)
Adaptive equipment
Address equipment issues- Size of bats/balls/netting/other
Allow water bottles
Alternate PE with sensory activities
Alternative activities allowed in one group
Alternatives to activity planned (three choices)
Audit the class
Auditory signals to cue movement
Balloons instead of balls
Basic skills
Be a spectator
Block off unused gym
Brain gym
Break skill down into step by step
Cage ball
Calming area to go to
Carpet in room- less noise
Centers
Change of environment- not in big gym
Choose favorite activity
Control environmental distractions
Cooperative games
Create encouraging, team atmosphere
Cross lateral exercises
DAPE – adaptive P.E.
DDR
Define area with tape on floor
Designated position or sub
Earplugs or headphones
Exercise to energizing music
Extended time in locker rooms
Extra appropriate activities (sand table at their height)
Extra P.E.
Extra trainer or helper
Eye toy
Finger exercises
Fitness rather than competition
Fitness room/training
Follow the leader, Simon says, etc.
Free throws
Games for social skills and other rules
Go outside
Goal setting
Golf teeing
Grade for effort
Grade level inclusion
Hat to cover eyes because of lights
Incorporate health
Keyed or word locks versus combinations
Larger equipment or modified equipment
Leisure activities
Let students choose
Limited time
Lower net (volleyball/basketball)
Map of gym
Mats in classroom
Meditation or calming after class
Model
Modeling good sportsmanship
Modified goals
Modified tests
Modified uniform- Only change shirt
Music
No dress requirement or over clothes
No whistles/clapping
Noise level reduction
Non-competitive
Nontraditional sports (bowling, skiing)
Not required to change into gym clothes
Obstacle course
Opt out
Para-assistance
PE partners
PECS to match
Peer helpers
Peer involvement
Personal space for belongings
Picture cues
Picture schedule
Planned breaks
Post rules- with pictures
Pre-rehearsal of skills, using video demonstration
Pre-teach
Pre-teaching of skills and sub-skills
Provide PE clothes
Quiet zone
Read a book on a particular sport or heroes in the sport
Relaxing music
Repetition / re-teaching
Replace typical P.E. with interests (yoga, pilates, etc.)
Responsible peer partner
Reverse inclusion
Richard Simons exercise video
Role playing
Rules on school website
Score keeper
Script before attending PE re:expectations
Self-help skills
Send rules home before activity begins
Sensory equipment
Separate locker room
Short summer course
Smaller class
Social stories
Social story of expectations
STAFF SUPPORT
Staggered dismissal
Stations to provide choice
Step by step example stations
Stretching
Student chooses activity for the class
Student led games
Study guides
Tai-chi activities
Teach games- cribbage, etc.
Teach independent activities, i.e. rowing, bike riding
Teach vocabulary
Teach with social stories
Teacher assigned teams
Teacher helper (equipment manager)
Team building games
Time keeper
Training peers
Tramp jumping with net guards or holding bar
Use extra people to help accomplish tasks
Use imagination to help visualize
Use of vibrations, sounds, textures
Use of visual cues for team identification
Use of wheelchairs, scooters and shortened distances
Use stress balls and other sensory equipment to keep them focused
Various uses of body
Video modeling of various activities
Video: From Silly to Calm
Visual aids
Visual instruction/written game rules
Visual schedule/sequence activity
Visual supports- tasks/rules/directions
Visual system for pacing games/laps/timing
Walking on track or treadmill
Warm up sensory break
Weight lifting vs. other activities
Weighted vests, wrist weights- ONLY with OT supervision
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