The Parent's Guide to Coaching Physically Challenged Children - Softcover

Zulewski, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558703470 ISBN 13: 9781558703476

Publisher: Betterway Books, 1994

Synopsis

Describes the challenges children with disabilities face playing sports, and offers advice on communication, adapting sports to abilities, and easing disabled athletes into mainstream programs

About this title

From Library Journal

Intended as an overview for parents and coaches, this book provides basic information on common types of physical and mental disabilities and behavior disorders, as well as tips on communicating with children thus affected. One chapter describes sample warmup, isometric, isotonic, and "cool down" exercises, while another outlines the history of the Special Olympics. The heart of the book, however, is its section on adaptable sports, which covers everything from beep baseball for the visually impaired, wheelchair football, showdown (a combination of air hockey and tennis), to skiing adapted for amputees or the blind. Since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the disabled have received increased visibility and this book, although brief, meets a unique need.
John Maxymuk, Rutgers Univ. Lib., Camden, N.J.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Betterway Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1558703470
• ISBN 13: 9781558703476
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 133