Today, the direction of the service to students with disabilities is geared to integration. The purpose of this study is to define the possibilities of integration of students with disabilities into public education system, and identify the problems a...
Today, the direction of the service to students with disabilities is geared to integration. The purpose of this study is to define the possibilities of integration of students with disabilities into public education system, and identify the problems and solutions to promote integration of students with disabilities in physical education class setting.
The integration for students with disabilities is based on the least restrictive environment(LRE), the principle regulate the right that students with disabilities should be able to receive education with normal students or least restrictive environment. At present, integration is executed at only few schools in Korea. Especially, in physical education class, the students with disabilities participate by watching others act. According to the research(Cho, 1982) for students with disabilities, it is reported that students with disabilities want to participate actively, if they can.
Critical problems and issues in the current integration practices are identified and analyzed in order to fine out the ways of facilitates integration of students with disabilities into public school. Four concrete conditions: teaching method, educational environment, teachers and a period of education are suggested for the purpose of promoting the integration of students with disabilities in terms of enhancing the total quality of adapted physical education in Korea.