Rhythmic Exercises on Specific Physical Fitness Parameters among Children with Disability
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Physical Fitness Parameter, Rhythmic Exercise, Children with Disability, Coordination and Reaction TimeAbstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the rhythmic exercises on specific physical fitness parameters among children with disability. The children aged between 10 to 14 female children alone were selected for the study, especially the children with mild intellectual disability. Total number of children were thirty and they all were school going female children in the Coimbatore district, Tamilnadu, India. these children were selected particularly with the help of medial report given my government and with the help of class teachers also parents as the child who are able to perform the Rhythmic Exercise and interested to be in this study. future thirty children were equally divided into Experimental groups (n=15) and Control group (n=15), after the group division the instruction was given to the children and started the intervention of 12 weeks rhythmic exercise where one group will perform rhythmic exercise (n=15) the experimental group and the other group will act as a passive group (n=15) where they may not do any kind of exercise instead follow the regular activity. As the rhythmic exercises was given for 12 weeks, 4 days per week, 45min of duration session was given along rest 15min of warm up and cool down was exercise was given totally 60min of duration was occupied. Rhythmic exercise was planned according to the children ability as slow, steady and retainable. Since in the selected Physical Fitness Parameters, which is Coordination and Reaction Time was analysis and it showed that the rhythmic exercises program significantly improved both Coordination and Reaction Time in the experimental group than the control group. These findings indicate that rhythmic exercises can effectively enhance physical fitness parameters in children with disability ( mild intellectual disability)..
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