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A master teacher of adapted aquatics, Dr. Lepore has been an American Red Cross water safety instructor for more than 25 years. She has a degree in leadership in adapted physical education and was a recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame Adapted Aquatics Award in 2001. She acted as chair for AAHPERD/AAPAR adapted aquatics from 2000 to 2005 and received a Meritorious Award from the Aquatic Council of AAHPERD/AAPAR in 2005.
Including aquatics in the definition of physical education provides schools with the option of including swimming in the curriculum for students with disabilities (figure 1.5) and gives families the right to access school swimming programs in which children without disabilities are granted instruction. While the law attempts to level the playing field for persons with disabilities, providing them with equal accessibility to (in our case) aquatics programs, what is reasonable may differ from ...
The ability to initially attend to a task and then maintain attention to complete it greatly improves the chances of learning the task. Provide kitchen timers to help the participant visualize how much time he has spent on a task. Strive to increase the participant’s ability to follow multitask directions, time spent on task, and quality of aquatic skills; work to decrease impulsive behaviors.
What are the roles of motor error and hypervigilance in unintended acceleration accidents? The prosecution, at Weller’s trial several years later, claimed it was no accident—that Weller deliberately drove his car through the crowded market. Richard Schmidt, a renowned motor control scholar and human factors expert, testified on behalf of the defense team and argued that the facts of the case shared many similarities to accidents caused by errors of pedal misapplication, or unintended ...
