Spring 2027

Adapted Physical Activity

Explores foundations, assessment, and pedagogy for physical activity with individuals with disabilities, emphasizing individual differences, life-span development, and self-actualization.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.88 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.60 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.50 GPA, 69.2% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain educational and civil rights of individuals with disabilities and to help promote a community of learners. Explain the rights and responsibilities of individuals, parents, teachers and other professional staff regarding advocacy and collaboration for individuals with disabilities.

  • Demonstrate knowledge about the safety and planning aspects (self-reflection, including developmentally appropriate formal and informal assessment, collaboration of services, strategies and resources, IEP writing, goal and objective formulation, and activity selection) of physical education programming for individuals with disabilities.

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the influence of selected diseases, conditions, and disabilities on the learning and performance of physical activities.

  • Demonstrate knowledge of a range of individual characteristics regarding communication, language acquisition, critical elements for motor skills, literacy development, and alternative means of communication, as well as collaborate with appropriate resources/services to facilitate communication.

  • Demonstrate use of technology, including assistive technology, through the collection of resources that enhance language, literacy, communication, understanding, and learning when working with individuals with disabilities.

  • Demonstrate knowledge in lesson planning and instruction to meet the multiple needs and learning styles of individuals with disabilities. This will include adapting activity/equipment, using instructional tasks, cues, and prompts, implementing managerial and instructional routines; identifying signs of learner distress and designing strategies for safe reflective teaching of physical education.

  • Apply knowledge of research- or evidence-based strategies, including utilizing universal design principles, for teaching and working effectively and inclusively with all students.

  • Apply knowledge of research- or evidence-based strategies for teaching and working effectively and inclusively with students from various social and economic circumstances and students with diverse family and living arrangements (e.g., students who are homeless; students who are in foster care; students with interrupted, limited, or no formal education).

  • Identify teacher responsibilities and requirements in working with students with disabilities and other special learning needs, including providing increasingly intensive supports and interventions through response to intervention (RTI) and positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) to support struggling learners and ensure appropriate referrals for special education.

  • Demonstrate the ability to successfully plan and implement an adapted physical education or sport activity program for individuals with disabilities at the university or in a school setting or both.

  • Demonstrate knowledge of sport opportunities available to students with disabilities through research and examination of internet sources.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Physical Education

  • Declared in Physical Education
KINES 316 used by

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  • Declared in Physical Education

Professors

Spring 2027

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 250
LAB 301Classroom Instruction0 / 250

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.88 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.60 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.50 GPA, 69.2% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Foundations, assessment, and pedagogy in physical activity settings
  • Influence of diseases, conditions, and disabilities on physical activity performance
  • Communication, language acquisition, motor skills, and literacy development
  • Universal design principles and evidence-based inclusive teaching strategies
  • Inclusive strategies for diverse social, economic, and family circumstances

Skills

  • Understanding educational and civil rights, advocacy, and collaboration for individuals with disabilities
  • Safety and planning for physical education programming, including assessment, IEP writing, and activity selection
  • Using technology and assistive tools to support language, literacy, and communication
  • Lesson planning and adaptive instruction, including equipment modification and cueing strategies
  • Implementing RTI and PBIS frameworks for intensive support and referral
  • Planning and implementing adapted physical education or sport programs

Grades

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KINES 316 · Spring 2027

Adapted Physical Activity

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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