Abstract

GREGUOL, Márcia  and  ROSE JUNIOR, Dante de. Health physical fitness of blind adolescents in regular and special schools. Rev. bras. crescimento desenvolv. hum. [online]. 2009, vol.19, n.1, pp. 42-53. ISSN 0104-1282.

Inclusion of handicap students in regular schools has attracted teacher's attention. In some schools, handicap student are inserted in regular classes, nevertheless without an effective participation in activities. As an aggravate factor, it's known that handicap children generally present an extremely passive leisure, with little motor experiences. In order to verify the handicap students situation in physical education classes, the aim of this study was to analyze health-related physical fitness variables of blind adolescents. Twenty-four blind adolescents, 12 of regular state schools e 12 of one special private school, with ages between 14 and 16 years old, had measured some anthropometric variables, flexibility, muscular strength and cardio-respiratory endurance. Both groups participated in physical education classes twice per week. It was observed that special school adolescents presented better results in muscular strength and cardio-respiratory endurance than the ones in regular school. By the results, it's possible to conclude that special school adolescents presented better levels of health-related physical fitness than others in regular schools.

Keywords : physical fitness; adolescence; blindness.

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