Katkelma esitelmästä

Access to physical education, recreation, and athletic programs is generally limited for individuals with visual impairments. Impaired vision usually prevents adults from participating in community basketball or softball leagues and limits the participation of young people in physical education classes and in school athletics. More students with visual impairments are now served in their local schools; often they do not have instructors who understand their special needs. Mainstream physical education instructors face a twofold problem when they have students with visual impairments: Their training has not prepared them to work with special students and they seldom have sufficient time to give individualized instruction. The problem is even more difficult. Special education teachers commonly have little or no expertise in teaching a wide range of physical education or sports skills. Therefore, unless youngsters have enough residual vision to perform at the level of their sighted peers, there is little possibility that they will receive the full benefits of physical education.