Physical and Sports Orientation of Children with Disabilities
The article deals with the problems of physical education and sports orientation of children with disabilities. The study was conducted in order to determine the effectiveness of the methodology for organizing orientation work aimed at attracting children to adaptive physical education. Schoolchildren with disabilities aged 7-14 having no medical contraindications to physical exercises took part in the research. A set of measures are proposed: work on informing schoolchildren and their parents about the possibilities of practicing adaptive types of physical education; monitoring of personal qualities and physical abilities of children in order to orientate them and select the most appropriate adaptive types of physical education and sports activities; attracting schoolchildren with disabilities to participation in sports events and festivals. The result of the study was an increase in the number of schoolchildren involved in adaptive physical education at sports and physical education institutions of the municipality.