Summary
Swimming is the most suitable branch of athletics for people with various handicaps. Much research is done and many scientific articles are written in foreign countries on the benefits of swimming for the handicapped, therefore there should be no doubt about it. In Lithuania however, little attention is paid to handicapped swimming. Desiring that the handicapped should reach higher levels of achievement, young swimmers should pay more attention to this sport. Because of this reason our objective is to determine disabled adolescents, their parents, swimming couches and municipality council members of Kaunas city attitude toward swimming for disabled like social phenomenon
Our tasks were: 1. To determine handicapped adolescent’s knowledge’s about swimming as social phenomenon. 2. To determine handicapped adolescent’s attitude toward swimming training for disabled. 3. To determine handicapped adolescent’s parent’s attitude toward swimming training for disabled. 4. To determine coacher’s from Kaunas city attitude toward disabled children in their swimming classes. 5. To determine the attitude, about swimming for disabled, of municipality council members of Kaunas city and their abilities to improve swimming adaptation for disabled.
Used methods:
1. Literature review, 2. Questionnaires, 3. Mathematical statistics
We found out that the knowledge of handicapped adolescents about swimming as a branch of athletics is weak and is not dependent on their impairment. Disabled... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050523_202404-91623 |
| Date | 23 May 2005 |
| Creators | Gylytė, Sigita |
| Contributors | Adomaitienė, Rūta, Jakušovaitė, Iraida, Valužienė, Nijolė, Statkevičienė, Birutė, Skučas, Kęstas, Šukys, Saulius, Vaitauskienė, Vida, Mikelkevičiūtė, Jūratė, Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050523_202404-91623 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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