Chapter 14.4: Academic support - Physical Education courses
14.4.1. Recommended practices
- Do not immediately assume inappropriateness and exclude students with disabilities from the Physical Education Courses at the outset.
- Explore the feasibility of having adaptive sports as Physical Education Courses.
- Tailor-make the flow and content of the Physical Education Courses with one-to-one or small-group instruction.
- If engaging in sports activities is really inappropriate for the students concerned upon mutual understanding and agreement between the teachers and students, then sports theories and everyday applications of knowledge of physical exercise may substitute it as the course content of the traditional “Physical Education Courses”.
- Liaise with the HKSAR Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) about the eligibility of using LCSD fitness rooms by students with disabilities who are attending Physical Education Courses at the university.
- Seek information and advice from related organizations, such as:
14.4.2. Examples of practices of local universities
- CUHK and HKBU offer tailor-made “Special Physical Education” course arrangement for students with disabilities who need it.