What's New in Adapted Physical Education

In this episode we took questions from the audience and the panel answered to the best of their abilities. The questions included asking about how we change perception, language to use when writing up assessments, and how to better assess entire APE programs.

I am extremely excited to be sharing with you the second part of a three part episode with a live podcast from the 45th National Adapted Physical Education Conference in California. This podcast discussion focused on assessment within APE. In this episode we discussed using assessment for eligibility reasons and using on-going (formative) assessment. In addition, at the end of the podcast we take...

I am extremely excited to be sharing with you all my second live podcast series from the 45th National Adapted Physical Education Conference in California. This podcast discussion focused on assessment within APE. In this panel we had another all star panel filled with a variety of APE/assessment experts. Our panel included Dr. Lisa Silliman-French, an APE Professor at Texas Woman’s University and...

I am extremely excited to be bringing you all the very first live recording What's New In Adapted Physical Education podcast!! Now when I say live, we mean that it was recorded with a panel of experts and we had a live audience viewing and interacting with the panel. The podcast was able to have this opportunity thanks in large part of being able to present at the 3rd annual Adapted Physical Educa...

This week's episode focuses again on the utmost important issue of parent advocacy for adapted physical education. The panel discusses the transition process for parents and physical education, adapted physical activity programs in the community, and the somewhat recent Dear Colleague Letter on extracurricular activities.

This week we are excited to be giving you a brand new episode of the podcast which focuses on parent advocacy for adapted physical education (APE). In this episode we were joined by Rocco Aiello, an APE coordinator and author of the book Sports, Fitness, and Motor Activities for Children with Disabilities A Comprehensive Resource Guide for Parents and Educators; Sherry St. Clair, a parent of a per...

I hope everyone has been enjoying the Camp Abilities podcast! We are excited to be giving you the third and final episode of podcast episodes which focus on Camp Abilities! This episode discusses some of the greatest moment each director has experienced in their own camps and we conduct a care to share, which is an guided discussion which occurs at the end of the day at each Camp Abilities.

I hope everyone really enjoyed the first episode of the Camp Abilities Podcast! This second episode has the panelist go more in-depth about the benefits of Camp Abilities, how to keep students with visual impairments active, and some of the research on working with people with visual impairments.

This podcast is very near to my heart as I have been blessed to have been apart of starting a Camp Abilities in Michigan. Camp Abilities is a sports camp specially designed for children with visual impairments. At Camp Abilities we grow leadership and sports skills in our campers and provide a unique experience for children with visual impairments. There are Camp Abilities all over the world, with...

The second portion of the collaboration podcast discusses why we collaborate with one another and the use of social media in collaborating with other as well.

This podcast was dedicated to learning more about the collaboration process for APE teachers and the IEP process. This episode guest starred two North Dallas APE teachers, Geoben Johnson and Heather Katz. They discussed in-depth their programs and how they use collaboration to inform the IEP process as well as to strengthen their programs.

Hello podcast followers! I am excited to be bringing you the 13th official episode of the podcast. This podcast was a casual conversation about ADA with former guest Jeff Lee, from Adaptive Sports and Recreation Association in San Diego. In this podcast we have a casual conversation about some of the parts of the law, the history of how the law came to be, and Jeff's perspective of how the law aff...

This is the second episode that focuses on behavior management for adapted physical educators and physical educators. The host also discusses some updates from the latest SHAPE conference.

Hello APE Podcast Listeners! Sorry we haven't aired any episodes for a few weeks but that is all about to change now! This will be the first episode of a three part episode with a panelist of behavior management experts. Our panelist included Dr. Lavay, the author of the new textbook Positive Behavior Management in Physical Activity Settings; we also had on Celine Viajar, a ASD consultant for the...

I hope everyone enjoyed the last episode of the podcast with some of the non-profits from throughout the nation which focus on adapted physical activity. This was the second episode where we included the new portion of the show called, "What's New in the History of APE/APA"! This episode focused on the origins of Special Olympics. I hope you all enjoy!

his episode specifically focused on non-profits within the field of adapted physical activity for people with disabilities. We were able to gather a terrific panel of directors from various non-profits from across the nation. In this podcast we discuss topics relating to why someone would start a non-profit all the way to how to get people with disabilities more involved in physical activity. Addi...

We did a best of all our 10 interviews. We also get to find out more about the creator of the podcast Scott McNamara.

I am proud to bringing you the 9th episode of Whats New in APE! It has been a tremendous journey so far and I am excited for it to continue. For the 10th episode we were honored to have on two adapted physical educators who are mother and daughter. The mother, Jean Young, is an adapted physical educator in Poway Unified School District in California. Jean's daughter, Amanda Young is an adapted phy...

We discuss the new app everyone is talking about, Exercise Buddy and how it helps kids with Autism by creating a strong exercise program for them.

Interview with Dr. Hagaele from Old Dominion University on topics such as how to best work with para educators.

Para Pros and Road to the Field of APE by What's New In Adapted Physical Education

Podcast 105: Matt Mescall and staying active outside of school by What's New In Adapted Physical Education

Gold Medalist Tanner Gers discusses Beep Baseball and how he is trying to get it into the Paralympics and why he believes it is so important to do so

For the third episode of What's New in Adapted Physical Education, we were joined by the exceptional Brad Weiner, the 2013 AAPHRED Adapted Physical Educator of the Year. Brad has been an amazing asset to the field of APE for many years and has made many contributions to our field. Brad has created and published original assessments for children with special needs, founded Camp Abilities Maryland,...

I am proud to be giving you our second exciting episode! In our second episode, I interviewed Erica Hope, a 3rd year APE teacher in Michigan. Erica's day primarily consist of working with adapted aquatics and early childhood at a center-based school for students with a wide variety of disabilities. During the interview we discuss an array of topics. The topics ranged from adapted aquatics, early c...