COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE INDICATORS OF PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN WITH SENSORY DISORDERS IN RELATION TO THEIR HEALTHY PEERS AS A PREREQUISITE FOR BUILDING AN ADAPTIVE PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM

Abstract

The urgency of the problem. In recent years, scientists have identified a tendency to increase the number of children with sensory disorders, especially in the form of visual deprivation. This actualizes the problem of correcting the manifestation of motor disorders in children with visual impairment in the process of adaptive physical education in order to promote their harmonious development and prevent the manifestation of secondary deviations. In modern science, there is also a problem of researching the peculiarities of the physical development of children with visual impairment, which is a prerequisite for building modern programs for adaptive physical education. Everything described above determines the relevance of the presented scientific research. The purpose of the work is a comparative analysis of indicators of physical development of 13-year-old children with sensory impairments in the form of visual deprivation in comparison with their relatively healthy peers. The results. If we consider the differences between the groups of 13-year-olds with visual impairment and their relatively healthy peers, it becomes noticeable that in some of them the groups hardly differ. These are indicators of body length, chest girth and excursion. In terms of body weight, thirteen-year-old adolescents with visual impairment far exceeded their relatively healthy peers, both by the average values of absolute units (by 7.3 kg) and by sigma scores (by 1.5 points). Such a difference was statistically significant at the 5 percent level of significance. Therefore, body weight is the parameter of physical condition that distinguishes 13-year-old adolescents with visual impairment from their relatively healthy peers in that they are significantly overweight. Conclusions. The analyzed data make it possible to preliminarily determine that the physical development of 13-year-old adolescents with visual impairment differs from the typical sex-age norms of their peers in that they have a higher body weight, a larger chest volume and height compared to the norms for their age and sex. The obtained scientific research data are necessary for building a program of adaptive physical education of children with visual impairment to correct the manifestation of both motor disorders and to regulate body weight in accordance with sex-age norms.