Here is a series of links to websites featuring the teaching of Physical Education to students with special educational needs. A category of SEN and a short description of content accompany each link.

Planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties: Physical Education

National Curriculum website: Introduction, Responding to pupils’ needs, opportunities and activities at key stage 1-4, performance descriptions.

Adapted Physical Education

How regular physical education activities can be adapted to include students with disabilities. Lists relevant ERIC citations with abstracts. Full-text ERIC documents can be obtained in microfiche or paper format from ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education, 1110 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201-5704, USA.

Adaptive Physical Education

Physical Education target-setting for the individual educational plans of learners with special educational needs.

A Bibliography of Physical Education and Special Educational Needs

A thematic reading list of PE/SEN references maintained by David Wilson.

PMLD PE Awards

An award scheme produced by Colin Gladsone from Hertfordshire.

PE Policy · PE Assessment

Longmoor School and Residential Unit provide education for pupils with severe learning difficulties, aged 2 to 11. The two Word documents can be downloaded from the Longmoor Curriculum Support Downloads Page. 

Curriculum Close-Up 7

The PE theme issue of the Royal National Institute for the Blind newsletter.

Adapted Physical Education for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Kathy Letcher's guidelines for teaching PE to children with a visual impairment.

Health and Physical Education

Statewide Vision Resource Centre links to resources for adapting the curriculum for blind and low Vision Students.

© 2002 D. R. Wilson