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carla wentworth (Cwentworth)
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Username: Cwentworth
Post Number: 1
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 8:27 am: |       |
Is anyone using obesity as a qualification for APE. If so what are some of the criteria used for qualifying for APE? |
Ryan Mitchell (Ryan_mitchell)
Junior Member
Username: Ryan_mitchell
Post Number: 4
Registered: 3-2011
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2011 - 12:20 pm: | |
That is a very good question. i don't believe that should count as adapted, but if it was considered adapted I would say morbidly obese would be the qualification. |
Jeremy A Tarr (Jeremytarr)
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Username: Jeremytarr
Post Number: 2
Registered: 4-2011
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 11:09 am: | |
I would qualify it as a problem because some students would not be able to do some activities that normal weight kids could do, so you would have to adapt your class for those individuals or they will be enbarresed. |
lauren t (Laurent3412)
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Username: Laurent3412
Post Number: 2
Registered: 5-2011
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 7:21 pm: | |
In my first two years of teaching I had a morbidly obese child in my PE class. Her first year she was not in adaptive PE. She became extremely lazy and refused to participate. I fought for her to be in adpative PE so I could really work with her in a smaller setting. Placing her in adaptive PE was so much more beneficial to her. I was able to do a walking program with her as well motivating her to participate with the other children. By the end of the year she lost some weight and we found some activities that she really enjoyed.
On the other hand, I have a student this year that has very little endurance and is a little overweight who does not receive adaptive PE. I think this benefits him because he is motivated to keep going by playing with his peers. He just has small modifications such as taking a 1 minute break or a quick drink. So in his case, he wouldn't qualify for adaptive PE.
So in my experience I believe it depends on the child and how severe their case is. |
Ginny Popiolek (Ginny_popiolek)
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Username: Ginny_popiolek
Post Number: 1
Registered: 5-2008
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2011 - 10:39 am: | |
Our county has utilized this under other health impaired with a physician as the qualified examiner and confirmed with BMI data. Additionally we utilize the motor development assessment and curriculum outcomes to verify that the health condition impacts the students performance. |
Tara Cantagallo (Tara1180)
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Username: Tara1180
Post Number: 2
Registered: 12-2011
| | Posted on Monday, December 19, 2011 - 10:46 am: | |
That would make sense, since obesity has many medical issues that seem to be involved. I think that if the doctor suggests that the obesity is causing a medical issue that cannot be controlled in a PE class, then that would be a good placement. Otherwise, if there is no other limitation, then doing more activity would be best. |
Katherine Sewing (Kathy_sewing)
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Username: Kathy_sewing
Post Number: 1
Registered: 1-2012
| | Posted on Saturday, January 07, 2012 - 1:16 pm: | |
I have two students with BMIs in the high 30's-low 40's who run almost the full 12 minutes on track days. Since they have endurance, I would not recommend them for an adapted p.e. class just based on their weight. |
Thomas Butts (Tom_b)
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Username: Tom_b
Post Number: 1
Registered: 8-2012
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - 10:56 am: | |
We are looking at this same thing in my district. One of the biggest challenges to adding students to our APE classes, other than special needs students, is where the funding will come from to staff these classes. As far as the criteria that we plan to use, we have been documenting our students fitness scores in a database form K-12. We hope to use this to identify students that are performing at a level that will prompt them to be in an APE class. |
Dawn Andrews (Andrewsdm)
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Username: Andrewsdm
Post Number: 2
Registered: 2-2012
| | Posted on Monday, October 15, 2012 - 7:03 am: | |
This is a difficult situation for all involved. Students who are severely overweight do have many phyical limitations. I can see the benefit of offering APE for these students. I would think that using BMI as a criteria may be appropriate. I have also worked with students in the upper BMI range who could function fairly well in a regular physical education class. I'm not sure that adapted PE would be appropriate for those students. I think it would need to be a case by case basis. |
