Summary: | Physical and recreational activities are important and good for promoting
development in learning, growth and health among children. Schools become the most
important and suitable institution to promote the physical activity in children .Physical
education (PE) help to develop and shaping the children’s behaviour. Thus well taught
physical education (PE) and some supports given by the special education teachers may
give some encouragement for children with disabilities to participate in physical
activities. Special education teachers are teachers who responsible to teach and care for the
children with special needs. Their responsibilities are quite heavy and challenging
because they need to handle these children who suffered from mental, emotional, vision,
and learning disabilities. They also play a big and important role to teach the skills and
provide maximum physical activity time within the class period. Subsequently, 46 respondents were selected from five different schools to
explore the recreational and physical activity teaching practices for children with
disabilities in special education program in primary school in Kota Bharu. Teaching
practices and teacher’s perception children with disabilities in physical and recreational
activities were gathered and developed through questionnaire, which was modified from
Hodge et.al (2004). All the data were analysed by using Simple frequency distribution
method because it is easy and save time while for the data had been computed manually
(DeVos, 2001). The important findings were discussed at length to determine the
research objectives that led to the conclusions of this research. On the analysis of data
and conclusions relevant recommendations were formulated.
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