What's New in Adapted Physical Education

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  What's New in Adapted Physical Education

  What Does an Adaptive Fitness Gym Look Like? with Brendan Aylward

  Sep 30, 202637 min

  In this episode of What's New in Adapt PE, we talk to Brendan Aylward as he answers what does it mean to create an inclusive adapted fitness gym. Brendan is the founder of Unified Health and Performance and leader of AdaptX, both non-profit organizations. Brendan created AdaptX to encourages fitness professionals to move pass a deficit-based practice and toward the individuals’ strengths, which can be done through AdaptX e-learning platform. AdaptX provides education, research and outreach developed with more than 30 educators and over 600 citations. Brendan discusses the development of an inclusive adaptive fitness gym and how fitness professionals can create an inclusive environment for people with and without disabilities. Brendan starts the conversation by describing his path from the Special Olympics to combining his passion for fitness to create Unified Health and performance. Brendan shares his philosophy and practice, beginning with person-centered approach through a group-based model for clients and building upon the individuals' goals, movements abilities, preference and prior experience. Brendan highlights the financial barriers, advertisement of adapted fitness, assumptions of accessibility within a fitness facility, and reassures how fitness facilities do not need expensive equipment to be an inclusive gym. Below is linked to the AdaptX website: https://www.adaptx.org

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  Collaborating with Speech and Language Pathologists in APE

  Mar 11, 202654 minS0

  In this episode, Amanda Young from Cal State Long Beach leads a conversation with Lanita Yarborough, a bilingual speech-language pathologist and assistant professor at Texas Christian University, about the practical and ethical dimensions of collaboration between speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and APE specialists. The discussion emphasizes how intentional partnership, co-treatment, and classroom design can enhance outcomes for disabled children. Lanita frames her approach around cultural humility and bilingual ethics, describing how respect for families’ linguistic resources enable more effective communication and learning. She explains the advantages of embedding typically developing peers in classrooms as natural peer models, noting benefits that flow to...

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  Fear and Teaching Disabled Children in Physical Education: A Conversation with Dr. Fabián Arroyo-Rojas

  Jan 6, 202649 minS0

  In this episode of the What's New in APE podcast, we dive into a topic that is rarely named out loud in PE and APE: fear. Drawing on a recent qualitative study by Dr. Fabian Arroyo-Rojas (Hofstra University) and his co-author Dr. Justin Haegele (Old Dominion University), our conversation explored how fear shapes the day-to-day practices of PE teachers working with disabled students. More specifically, their study examined the lived experiences of PE and APE teachers working in integrated PE settings. Their findings demonstrated that even experienced PE teachers often described experiencing feelings of being watched by administrators and parents...

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  Unified PE and Sport: What the research says

  Nov 11, 202533 minS0

  In this episode of What’s New in Adapted Physical Education, we had a conversation with Ballie Ollila, a doctoral student at Old Dominion University, about her research examining Unified Physical Education and Unified Sports programs. Her systematic review, “Special Olympics’ UnifiedSports and Physical Education Programming: A Systematic Review”, recently published in Quest, found that despite the popularity of unified PE and Sports programming, there is a lack of empirical evidence supporting its effectiveness. Ms. Ollila explains that her research was motivated by the Virginia Board of Education’s decision to allow unified PE to count as a physical education credit, pr...

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  Co-Producing Adapted PE: Insights from Dr. Ally Keene

  Oct 29, 202543 minS0

  In this episode, we talked with Dr. Ally Keene, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at Elizabeth City State University, about her journey into Adapted Physical Education (APE) and her dissertation on co-producing resources with blind young adults. Her dissertation centered on co-production, a collaborative research approach involving disabled individuals as equal partners. Working alongside three blind young adults, she created the website “Resources and Recommendations for PE Teachers of Blind Students,” hosted by Old Dominion University. The site includes sections on teacher attitudes, accessible fitness opportunities, and advocacy, providing practical tools to help PE teachers better support blind and visually impaired stud...

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