Adapted Sport Activities for Students with Intellectual Disability: A Review of Literature

Abstract

Support services play a critical role in assisting students with intellectual disability and developing their skills. This paper discusses various topics of sport activities for students with intellectual disability including: adapting sport activities, designing activities, sport services, teachers’ competencies in relation to adapting sport activities, and strategies for providing sport activities and services for student with intellectual disability. The paper also provides a thorough discussion of what adapted sport activities are, the types of adapted sport activities, and how such activities would benefit students with intellectual disability and develop their social skills and overall mental health. Further, a number of recent studies on the use of adapted sport activities among students with intellectual disability are provided and discussed.