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APE/APA Resources

ADAPTED PHYSICAL EDUCATION/ACTIVITY

ASSESSMENT TOOLS

  1. Adapted Physical Education Guidelines in California Schools: Included is a list of various assessment tools with descriptions of applicable ages and disabilities.
  2. Assessment for Adapted Physical Education (A-APE): a-ape is an MS Excel workbook containing separate worksheets for more than 20 of the most commonly used adapted physical education assessment tools.
  3. BRIGANCE® Inventory of Early Development-Revised: Criterion-referenced, the IED assesses more than 200 developmental, readiness, and early academic skills in 11 major skill areas: preambulatory motor social and emotional development gross-motor fine-motor readiness self-help basic reading speech and language manuscript writing general knowledge and comprehension basic math
  4. The Brockport Physical Fitness Test Manual: Ages 10-17. Teachers no longer have to adapt standard physical fitness tests to accommodate students with special needs. The all-new Brockport Physical Fitness Test is specifically designed to test the fitness of youths from ages 10 through 17 that have various disabilities. The Brockport Physical Fitness Test Manual is also available as part of a kit of coordinated resources that includes software, a training guide, measurement tools, and much more.
  5. Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency: Ages: 4-6 through 14-5. Eight subtests assess these skills: Gross Motor Development, Running speed and agility, Balance, Bilateral coordination, Strength (arm, shoulder, abdominal, and leg), Gross and Fine Motor Development, Upper-limb coordination, Fine Motor Development, Response speed, Visual-motor control, Upper-limb speed and dexterity. Scores/Interpretation: Age-based standard scores, percentile ranks, and stanines. Age equivalents for the Complete Battery only.
  6. The DEVPRO: (DEVelopmental PROgramming) Motor Skills Assessments is used by Adapted Physical Education Specialists to test basic gross motor and perceptual-motor skills to enhance skill acquisition. It provides computer facilitated I.E.P. Goals and Objectives, professional evaluation reports, student file maintenance, criterion referenced, birth to 11 years, developmental age norms, over 950 skill tasks included in database, The DEVPRO software: produces accurate, individualized evaluation summaries, maintains individual student records, assists caseload management, recommends goals and objectives. Evaluation templates are included and can be customized by the user.
  7. FITNESSGRAM 6.0 Test Kit: Ages 10-18. The key components of the kit are the FITNESSGRAM Test Administration Manual (Second Edition) and the powerful FITNESSGRAM 6.0 software. The Test Administration Manual describes the benefits of fitness education and fitness testing; shows you how to conduct the fitness test to assess students’ cardiorespiratory endurance, body composition, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility; and describes how to use the software.
  8. Hawaii Early Learning Profile (HELP): HELP® (0-3) is a widely-used, family-centered, curriculum-based assessment for use by professionals working with infants, toddlers, young children, and their families: As a curriculum-based assessment, HELP is not standardized; it is used for identifying needs, tracking growth and development, and determining "next steps" (target objectives). It offers play-based activities and intervention strategies for each skill. HELP covers 685 skills (birth-3 years) in the six domains: Cognitive, Language, Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Social, and Self-Help.
  9. KALMS (R) Test: Here you will find information on the KALMS (R) Test, the Kounas Assessment of Limited Mobility Students, a functional motor skill evaluation for orthopedically disabled students. You will also find information on ordering the KALMS (R) Test package and individual components.
  10. Peabody Developmental Motor Scales (PDMS-2): The PDMS­2 is an early childhood motor development program that provides (in one package) both in-depth assessment and training or remediation of gross and fine motor skills. The assessment is composed of six subtests that measure interrelated motor abilities that develop early in life. It is designed to assess the motor skills of children from birth through 5 years of age. Gross Motor Quotient: This composite is a combination of the results of the subtests that measure the use of the large muscle systems-- Reflexes (birth­11 months only), Stationary (all ages), Locomotion (all ages), Object Manipulation (12 months and older). Fine Motor Quotient: This composite is a combination of the results of the subtests that measure the use of the small muscle systems-- Grasping (all ages), Visual-Motor Integration (all ages). Total Motor Quotient: This composite is formed by a combination of the results of the gross and fine motor subtests. Because of this, it is the best estimate of overall motor abilities.

JOBS

  1. Ed-Join: Welcome to ED-JOIN! You've come to California's premiere public education job search web site. Maintained by the California Teacher Recruitment and Incentive Program, ED-JOIN is a portal to thousands of teaching and other education job openings and to a broad range of job placement and training services for job seekers.
  2. National Clearinghouse for Professions in Special Education: The National Clearinghouse for Professions in Special Education (NCPSE) is committed to enhancing the nation's capacity to recruit, prepare, and retain well qualified diverse educators and related service personnel for children with disabilities.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

  1. AAHPERD: The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) is the largest organization of professionals supporting and assisting those involved in physical education, leisure, fitness, dance, health promotion, and education and all specialties related to achieving a healthy lifestyle.
  2. CAHPERD: The mission of the California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD) is to promote healthful lifestyles through quality education for all populations and provide leadership to school, community and statewide programs in the areas of health, physical education, recreation, dance and other movement-related programs.
  3. California Physical Education Resources: The purpose of this site is to provide information that is current and relevant to K-12 physical educators specifically in California, but also across the nation.
  4. Games Kids Play: Rules for over 250 recreation games for kids.
  5. PE Central: Our goal is to provide the latest information about contemporary developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth.
  6. PELINKS4U: This web site is your source for locating physical education teaching resources.

SPECIAL EDUCATION

  1. California Department of Education, Special Education Division: Information on laws, services, resources, and calendar of events relevant to Special Education in the State of California.
  2. EASI's Web Design Access Kit: Web pages can be created using Universal Design principles permitting their use by people with different browsers, different connection speeds, palm pilots, PDA's and by people with disabilities using adaptive computer technology. They can also be created in ways that exclude many of the above users. This is an EASI Starter Kit to help you utilize design principles that will provide access to your pages for people with disabilities.
  3. Federation for Children with Special Needs: The Mission of the Federation for Children with Special Needs is to provide information, support, and assistance to parents of children with disabilities, their professional partners, and their communities. We are committed to listening to and learning from families, and encouraging full participation in community life by all people, especially those with disabilities. It includes a directory of summer camps and lists of parent support groups in various states.
  4. IDEA 2004: Web site by the US Department of Education, with the new regulations and articles on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 2004.
  5. IRSC Disabilty Links: An extensive list of resources on disability categories by The Internet Resources for Special Children (IRSC). Included are links to various recreation and sports resources.
  6. Special Education News Special Education News answers a need in education for in-depth, timely news related to educating students with disabilities. The Web site and newsletter are journalistic publications centered on the news of the special education field. The Web site is also designed to offer unique resources to special education professionals in one convenient place. These include places for educators and others to exchange their views, find links to important information at other sites on the Web and keep track of news and events across the country.
  7. Wrightslaw: Because advocates need accurate information, parents, educators, experts, and attorneys come to Wrightslaw for up-to-date information about effective advocacy for children with disabilities. You'll find hundreds of articles, cases, newsletters, and other information about special education law and advocacy in the Wrightslaw Libraries.

SPORTS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES

  1. American Amputee Soccer Association: Our Mission: 1: To promote social interactivity, self-esteem and self-confidence among adult, and especially among new and youthful amputees, through recreational and competitive amputee soccer programs. 2: To identify, develop, and train athletes to represent the United States in elite International amputee soccer competition, and in Paralympic competition when the sport achieves that status.
  2. Disabled Sports USA: A national nonprofit, 501(c)(3), organization established in 1967 by disabled Vietnam veterans to serve the war injured. DS/USA now offers nationwide sports rehabilitation programs to anyone with a permanent physical disability. Activities include winter skiing, water sports, summer and winter competitions, fitness and special sports events. Participants include those with visual impairments, amputations, spinal cord injury, dwarfism, multiple sclerosis, head injury, cerebral palsy, and other neuromuscular and orthopedic conditions.
  3. Disability Sports: This web site, sponsored by Michigan State University, includes information on disability sport organizations, sports offerings, classification systems, major competitions for athletes with a disability, summaries of recent research papers on disability sport topics, and much more.
  4. Sitski: What is adaptive skiing? Well in the simplest terms, it is to bypass your limitation and adapt your self, be it with training and or special equipment to go on and ski. There are many types of adaptive skiing, but with one thing in common, it's skiing!
  5. Special Olympics: This site includes descriptions of a large variety of sports, training tips, and Special Olympics events for the sports.
  6. The Challenged Athletes Foundation: The Challenged Athletes Foundation was created on the belief that people of all abilities should have the opportunity to pursue a life full of physical activity and of sports. Be they recreational or in pursuit of a gold medal at the Paralympic Games, people with a physical disability are limited only by their access to funding. As one of the very few charities that provides grants directly to athletes with a physical disability, the Challenged Athletes Foundation has proudly assisted 525 challenged athletes since its inception in 1993, raised almost 2 million dollars and has created a small endowment fund to ensure challenged athletes will always have a place to go for funding.
  7. United States Association of Blind Athletes: The mission of the United States Association of Blind Athletes is to increase the number and quality of grassroots-through-competitive, world-class athletic opportunities for Americans who are blind or visually impaired. We do this by providing athlete and coach identification and support, program and event management, and national and international representation. We value the life-enhancing aspects of sports and the opportunity to demonstrate the abilities of people who are blind and visually impaired.
  8. USCPAA: Information on the sports training and classification system used by the United States Cerebral Palsy Athletic Association.
  9. United States Golf Association: This publication contains permissable modifications to the Rules of Golf for use by disabled golfers. This is not intended to be a revision of the Rules of Golf as they apply to able-bodied players. As is the case for the Rules of Golf themselves, these modifications, along with the philosophy expressed herein, have been agreed upon by the United States Golf Association and the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, Scotland.
  10. United States Quad Rugby Association: In 1988, the United States Quad Rugby Association (USQRA) was formed to help promote and regulate the sport of quad rugby on both a national, and international level. Since it's organized inception, the sport has grown from an original four teams to more than forty-five teams in the United States today! In addition to the growth of the sport in the US, it has grown internationally as well. It is now played in more than 24 nations.
  11. Wheelchair Sports, USA: From its earliest beginnings to the present day, Wheelchair Sports, USA, has been directed and developed by wheelchair athletes and wheelchair sports enthusiasts themselves, individuals with a first-hand understanding to the values of participation.