Section I: Foundational Understandings
1. Understanding the Basics of Adapted Physical Education
Justin A. Haegele
2.Understanding Laws and the IEP Process
Scott McNamara
3.Understanding Disability & Disability Language
Justin A. Haegele
4 .Understanding Inclusion & Exclusion
Justin A. Haegele & Anthony J. Maher
5.Understanding Ableism
Lindsey Nowland & Martin Giese
6. Understanding Critical Thinking, Reflection, and the Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice in Adapted Physical Education
Joonkoo Yun
7. Understanding Behavior and How to Support It
Chloie Simpson
8. Understanding Intersectionality and Teaching Multiply Marginalized Students
Fabian Arroyo Rojas
Section II: Understanding Impairment
9 . Understanding Autism & Neurodivergence
Samantha Ross-Cypcar & Layne Case
10. Understanding Orthopedic Impairments
Katie Holland & Laura J Pisciotta
11. Understanding Visual Impairments
Lindsay E. Ball
12. Understanding Deafness and Hearing Impairment
Anthony J. Maher
13. Understanding Intellectual Impairments
E. Andrew Pitchford
14. Understanding Multiple Disabilities
T.N. Kirk
Section III: Understanding Diverse Instructional Areas
15. Understanding Paralympic School Day
Cathy McKay
16. Understanding Adapted Health Education
Maria Lepore-Stevens
17. Understanding Adapted Dance
Baillie Ollila
18. Understanding Adapted Aquatics
Jihyun Lee
19. Understanding APE Outside of the Gym
Steven Holland
20. Understanding Transition Services: Beyond Adapted Physical Education
Wesley J. Wilson
Glossary
Biography
Justin A. Haegele is the Colgate Darden Endowed Professor and the Director of the Center for Movement, Health, & Disability in the Department of Human Movement Studies & Special Education at Old Dominion University, US. He serves as the director of Project CAPER and the co-director of the MAMC, two initiatives funded by the US Department of Education to train doctoral scholars in adapted Physical Activity. He is also the immediate-past president of the North American Federation of Adapted Physical Activity, and the editor-in-chief for the peer-reviewed publication Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly.
