THE ADAPTED PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN THE CURRICULUM OF COURSES OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Abstract

From the International Year of disabled Person (1981) one can observe several actions that allowed the expansion of service to people with disabilities, including in the area of physical education and sport. This article discusses creating a discipline in undergraduate courses in physical education, through restructuring of 1990 curriculum, punctuating questions relating to governmental actions and the route for its insertion in the curriculum, characteristics of the discipline and studies about the development within the training courses in physical education in various regions of the country. Since then, many advances have been achieved, however, there is much to be done, since the specialization of teachers in the area, the Organization of the curriculum as appropriate (proper nomenclature, as well as the content to be covered), extension activities, until the advance on the research and production of knowledge.