AUTHOR(S): Hasanain Jawad Abdullah

ABSTRACT:
There is an increasing interest in countries around the world in providing opportunities for growth and education for people with disabilities. Education and learning are among the basic rights of all segments of society, whether they are normal or disabled, as these people with disabilities are considered disabled human energies if they do not receive appropriate care and attention. People with disabilities of the S10-S9 category have the ability to learn, but in a way that is specific and appropriate for them. Through the researcher’s visits and numerous meetings to institutes and centers concerned with educating people with disabilities of the S10-S9 category, they noticed that those in charge and concerned avoid the water environment in the process of their education and training for this category in particular. Among the juniors, the researcher also noted the lack of sports studies dealing with disabled people in the S10-S9 category, and this reinforces the need to conduct this study. The research aimed to identify the effect of water exercises on learning breaststroke swimming and acquiring some sensory-motor abilities for disabled youth in the S10-S9 category, aged (13-14) years. The researcher used the experimental method with one experimental group to suit the nature of the research, and the research population was determined from the emerging disabled individuals of the S10-S9 category registered at the Baghdad Center for the disabled in the year (2016), and they numbered (20) male labs. A sample was taken from them intentionally, as their number reached (6). The small number of sample members is due to the parents’ lack of consent for their children to practice water exercises and swimming, and the ages were determined to be between (13-14) years, and in the S10-S9 category, according to the classification approved by Before the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs based on the classification of the American Association, and they had not practiced swimming before. The researcher concluded that it is possible and easy to use water exercises with disabled people in the S10-S9 category, aged 13-14 years. The use of water exercises has a positive effect on learning breaststroke swimming and improves the acquisition of sensory-motor abilities for disabled people of the S10-S9 category aged (13-14) years.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22271/yogic.2024.v9.i1b.1524

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