Legislation has forced physical educators to teach individuals with disabilities. Physical educators do not always have the proper training, equipment, or resources to teach this population. Modifications made in teaching sports and sports skills can provide the physical educator with assistance in providing the individuals with disabilities success in an inclusion setting.

The purpose of this book provides information about legislation, disability sports, disability sports organizations, sports skills, modifications, and resources. Individuals who can benefit from the use of this book are physical educators, adapted physical educators, regular classroom teachers, pre-professional college students, recreational therapists, Special Olympic coaches, and parents. The use of this book would not be limited to the groups mentioned. Anyone interested in individuals with disabilities could greatly benefit from this book.

Including references, the length of the book is two hundred sixteen pages. The book is set up in five steps. Those steps include the following;

Step 1 - Locate a Sport
Step 2 - Cross Reference a Disability Sport
Step 3 - Learn About the Game and Its Skills
Step 4 - Match Your Student's Functional Level of Performance
Step 5 - Select and Implement an Appropriate Game

The steps are designed to help in adopting an entire disability sport into a curriculum or integrating specific sport skills from disability sports. The author reminds the reader that the choice is yours and to be open minded. The content of the book is covered in four parts. Part 1 deals with fundamentals. The fundamentals include legal background and wheelchair basics. In Part 2, Invasion Games are introduced The following sports listed in this part are wheelchair basketball, indoor wheelchair soccer. The progression of each sport is a description of the sport, skills to be taught, functional profiles and general modifications, game progressions, games by skill level index: low functioning, game descriptions, games by skill level index: moderate to high functioning, and game descriptions. Part 3 deals with net games. Those games included are sitting volleyball and wheelchair volleyball. The progression is the same. Court Games/Track Events are the titles of Part 4. Listed in this part are goalball and the slalom. Again, the progression is the same. Appendix information contains legal applications, wheelchair basics, links to other sports and adapted activities, and Equipment concerns.

Readers will find the setup of the book to be extremely user friendly. The progression of each sport is valuable to physical educators whether they are teaching adapted physical education or integrating into a regular physical
education curriculum. The appendix information provides resources which are helpful and also suggested reading material will provide a wider knowledge base.

Inclusion for Sports is a valuable resource as a supplement to a Physical education curriculum. The information from this book would allow any individual enough material to provide success to individuals with disabilities. I would rate this book a 5 for the content and application.

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