Introduction
While simulating the situation where one is in charge of the PE class, one needs to remember that disability is never inability, thus the students with the disabilities can participate in any games as well as the other students if the rules of the game are adjusted for those students’ participation. Numerous people disabled in a different way already throve on various sports, and thus, defeated their psychological inferiority complex.
Main body
Therefore, it would be relevant to represent two cases of students with disabilities, and the additional rules which should be made to enable those students to participate in the kickball game. There are two students with two disabilities, who can be engaged in the kickball game with the revised rules: the cripple with the right injured leg, who can not walk without crutches, and the student with the paralyzed fingers on his left leg.
It might be suggested that those students can use the wheelchairs with the foot platforms to move around the field during the game. Unlike the other players of the attacking team, such students use their hands while playing; thus, they can kick the ball with their hands. After they would peach the ball, those students move around in their wheelchairs. It should be noted that, if they would join the game, the playing field should be located on a smooth surface.
It is a known fact that kickball wheelchair players have been playing for the last 30 years. Referring to the experience of those players and their coaches or PE teachers, there might be brought up some special principles and the involvement the extra facilities and equipment. As it was already mentioned the involvement of those two students would require the wheelchairs with the foot platforms. The orientation of the field is also an issue of great interest. The field should be free of any grass or dirt elements. It must be also flat with a smooth surface (Tomasi, 2000).
It might be also proposed for the wheelchair players to use a wooden device, called a block, to bat the ball. The players with the duty to bat should be allowed to change the hands that grip the block. This is an important issue in enhancing the grip on the block.
The whole game might be held in the following manner: when the attacking player is playing, the wheelchair player must make the contact with the base. In this case, if the wheelchair player will not be able to contact the line, he or she may use her hand to touch the line. Hopping and crawling to the base can be an alternative in the case if the player (generally called the runner in the kickball) will be knocked off the wheelchair.
Instruction
The ball should be hit when the lower extremity is not in the contact with the ground. In case if the ball would be already hit, it will be considered as a dead one, and all of the runners will return to the last base. Defending cases is should be also adjusted to accommodate the disabilities. It might be suggested that no one of the fielders should play the ball whenever the extremity, as indicated, is in the contact with the ground. The fielder must be in the wheelchair before making any productive advance to the ball. Violation of those game regulations and rules will automatically result in penalties.
The restraining lines should be carefully adjusted and marked. All the demarcations must be twelve feet from the bases and parallel to the baselines (Tomasi, 2000). It is important to note that all of the four infielders must have at least one wheelchair player on the line or behind it until the ball would leave the pitcher’s hand.
Work cited
Tomasi, M. Learning to play kickball on a wheelchair. Oxford: Oxford University Publisher, 2000.