Impact of Adapted Physical Activities on Selected Motor Fitness Variables of Girls with Intellectual Disability

Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to find out the impact of adapted physical activities on selected motor fitness variables of girls with intellectual disability. For this study, 20 mild intellectually challenged girls were selected from Faculty of Disability Management and Special Education unit, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Their age ranged from 8 to 15 years. The selected subjects were considered as two groups, 10subjects in each group. Group I was treated as experimental group namely Adapted physical activities group. These 10 subjects had under gone adapted physical activities designed by the researcher, five days a week for sixteen weeks. Group II was treated as control group. The control group did not participate in any specific training programme. The following variables were selected for the study such as motor fitness variables namely leg explosive power and arm power. All subjects were tested prior to training after completion of eight weeks and after completion of sixteen weeks of training on the selected variables. To analyze the collected data investigator used one way Repeated Measures ANOVA was used to find out the significant difference among pre test, mid test and post test data. If obtained ‘F’ ratio is significant Newman Kuel’s test was used. Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was applied to determine the significance of mean difference between the two groups. It is concluded that adapted physical activities produced significant changes in the selected motor fitness variables namely leg explosive power and arm power of girls with intellectually disability. It is also concluded that the control group did not show any significant difference in the selected motor fitness variables namely leg explosive power and arm power of girls with intellectually disability. Further, it is also concluded that the adapted physical activities group has significant improvement than the control group on arm power of girls with intellectually disability.

Author Name : Gawri Sankara Prasad R & Dr. M.Srinivasan

Keywords: Adapted physical activities, leg explosive power, arm power and intellectually challenged children.