Adapted Sports Practice and the Educational Process

The teaching of motor and sports activities adapted to disabilities is a fruitful field of educational intervention in continuous evolution. The analysis, adaptation of the motor task supports the implementation of teaching models that promote an inclusive sports experience for all students. Sport integrated into the teaching-learning process, in fact, pursues inclusive goals according to an adapted methodological approach, i.e. accessible and personalized. The following contribution aims to highlight the educational purposes of motor and sports activity, focusing on the vision of both Adapted Physical Activity and integrated sports activity. There is also the regional project “School, Sport and Disability” promoted by CIP Puglia in collaboration with USR Puglia, which over the years has involved a high number of students with disabilities from lower and upper sec ondary schools in order to promote the participation of disabled pupils in student championships, with the aim of implementing sports and relational experiences, and encourage continuity of extracurricular practice.