The goal of this dissertation is to introduce the children with special needs, their involvement in sports, wider society and Special Olympics, and also to develop a 10 hour preparing program for Special Olympics games in basketball.
The program is designed in a way that it includes different basic games and locomotor tasks to provide children with special needs all the necessary requirements to maintain and even more develop their locomotor abilities so that they can learn and strengthen their technique of playing some individual basketball element and also to improve their psychical condition. They can use all the gained knowledge in games that are adapted to their ability and specialty. With this children are improving in social skills, strengthening their self-confidence, learning to make friends and are asserting themselves in wider society. Consequently, also our society will become more open and prepared to accept certain differentness.
The program can be run by special education teachers or by professors of psychical education that are preparing sportsmen for Special Olympics games, because it is based on professionalism, progressiveness and quality. It can also be used by regular teachers of physical education in everyday gym teachings in schools, so that they can teach sport and daily activity as a way of life to kids with special needs.
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