Book Review: A Teacher’s Guide to Adapted Physical Education: Including Students with Disabilities in Sports and Recreation, 4th Edition

The fourth edition of this book is organized into four sections. Section I: Foundations (Chapters 1–3) provides an in-depth description of physical education, inclusion, and taking a team approach to inclusion in physical education. Section II: Inclusive practices and Planning (Chapters 4–7) focus on planning and assessment along with instructional, curricular, game, and sport modifications. Section III: Understanding Specific Needs (Chapters 8–16) provides information related to understanding specific needs including intellectual, learning, and sensory disabilities as well as emotional disturbance. Section IV: Supporting Across Contexts (Chapters 17–21) focus on social acceptance, making physical education safe, behavior management, inclusion in community-based recreation, and multicultural education and issues of diversity. At the end of the book, there are comprehensive reference and index sections. The fourth addition of this book has changed a number of areas from the previous third edition. First, this edition includes downloadable materials, which includes customizable PowerPoints for individuals who will be teaching a course using this book. Instructions on how to retrieve the material are also provided. Second, there is a notable difference in the number of collaborators for different chapters of the book. Block identifies in his acknowledgments how " thrilled he was to get some of the leaders in physical education for students with specific disabilities " to contribute to the new chapters. Third and perhaps the most notable change is the addition of nine chapters focusing on understanding the needs for specific disabilities (section III). Finally, block has changed some of the organization of the chapters. Most notably, (a) the book is now organized into four themed sections, (b) chapters 4 and 5 from the third edition (Planning for inclusion in physical education, assessment to facilitate successful inclusion) have been combined to create chapter 4 in the fourth edition (Program Planning and Assessment), (c) the aquatics chapter from the third edition has not been included in the newest edition, and (d) the new chapters on Understanding specific needs (chapters 9–16) have been inserted after the game and sport modifications chapter moving chapters on facilitating social acceptance, making inclusive physical education safe, positive behavior supports , community-based recreation, and multicultural education and diversity issues to comprise the last section of the book (Supporting Across Context). The organization of this book has an intuitive flow progressing from basic to more complex content regarding adapted physical education.