Case Study Of Children With Autism In Inclusive Physical Education

As a global public health problem, Autism has become widespread developmental disorders with a high incidence,which seriously damage children’s physical and mental health.To children with autism, normal teaching methods often cannot meet their needs, while the method of inclusive physical education is full of human-oriented,which can make them join and experience sports study and activities together with able-bodied children in a relatively loose and free environment, through appropriate and diverse design of activities.So they can make progress and acquire development from it.Based on previous studies of the intervention of child with autism by means of physical activities, with the cooperation of the child’s parents and PE teacher.a three-month experiment was conducted on a eight-year-old and a nine-year-old child with autism,by physical activities mainly dominated by basketball. After the experiment,SRS is applied to evaluate the impact on the overall development of them, involved in Social Awareness,Social Cognition,Social Communication, Social Motivation and Autistic Mannerisms. In the meantime, changes of the child’s behaviors in such aspects as the cooperation of group games, eye contact, companion seeking, imitation behavior, or the participation of group activity was observed and studied especially for object of study,on the basis of which some advice and expectations are then given. The findings though the research are as follows:(1) All things considered, the method of physical activities mainly dominated by basketball can play a positive role in making progress and acquiring development for children with autism in the inclusive environment.(2) The cooperation, assistance and participation of parents and PE teacher make a big difference to conducting intervention successfully in the progress of inclusive physical education.(3) During the whole experiment, Social Cognition of two children with autism had little change,what the reason may be that the intensity of interference isn’t enough, caused by shortage of time.(4) According to the effect of intervention on children with autism,Adjusting or changing specific strategy or method of intervention timely has a significant effect on meeting expectations of intervention in the progress of inclusive physical education.