Review adaptive physical education suggestions and standards for coaching the fundamentals of softball: base running, throwing, fielding, and hitting (batting). This outline provides ideas and progressions for developing softball skills, as well as lists learning objectives and specialized equipment needs.

Concepts

softball, adaptive physial education, running, sports, the special olympics

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Additional Tags

physical education

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Instructional Ideas

• Walk through the steps of each event, and particularly the suggested pointers, before beginning the activities with your class members in order to practice your instructional cues 

Pros

• Details the necessary setting, rules, pointers, and adaptations for each type of softball activity
• Specifies adaptations for learners using wheelchairs or with visual impairments

Cons

• There are no images to accompany each activity setup, which makes it difficult to visualize what is intended